Thomas Cranmer
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Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during Henry VIII, Edward VI, and, for a brief period, Mary I. He aided in the establishment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the reasons for the English Church's split from the Holy See.
He also supported the idea of Royal Supremacy, in which the king was regarded as sovereign over the Church within his kingdom. During Cranmer's time as Archbishop of Canterbury, he was responsible for the establishment of the first doctrinal and liturgical institutions of the reformed Church of England.
Cranmer made no significant changes in the Church under Henry's reign, owing to power struggles between religious conservatives and reformers.
Nevertheless, he was able to publish the Exhortation and Litany, the first officially licensed vernacular service. Cranmer was able to introduce major reforms when Edward was throne.
He wrote and assembled the first two editions of the Book of Common Prayer, a complete liturgy for the English Church.
He modified doctrine or discipline in fields including the Eucharist, clerical celibacy, the role of pictures in places of worship, and the veneration of saints, with the support of several Continental reformers to whom he gave refuge.
Cranmer introduced the new doctrines in the Prayer Book, the Homilies, and other publications. Cranmer was charged with treason and heresy following his ascension of Roman Catholic Mary I.
He made several confessions and perhaps reconciled himself with the Roman Catholic Church after being detained for more than two years and under pressure from Church authorities.
Although this would have normally dismissed him, Mary I wanted him to die on the day of his execution, but instead, he resigned as a heretic to Roman Catholics and a martyr for the English Reformation's principles.
Cranmer's death was immortalized in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, but his legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican expression of faith derived from his writing.
Early years (1489–1527)
Historians have no information about Cranmer's early education. He most likely attended a grammar school in his neighborhood. He was sent to Cambridge's newly founded Jesus College at the age of 14, two years after his father's death. Following a curriculum of logic, classical literature, and philosophy, he took him eight years to achieve his Bachelor of Arts degree. He began to collect medieval scholastic books, which he kept faithfully throughout his life. Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and Erasmus were among his master's study subjects, including the humanists. He completed the course in three years. He was selected to a Fellowship of Jesus College just shy of receiving his Master of Arts degree in 1515.
Joan, a woman named Cranmer, was married some time after he received his MA. Despite the fact that he was not yet a priest, he was forced to forfeit his fellowship, resulting in the loss of his residence at Jesus College. He began working at Buckingham Hall as a reader (later renamed as Magdalene College) to support himself and his wife. Jesus College demonstrated its admiration for Cranmer when he died during his first childbirth by reinstating his fellowship. He began studying theology and by 1520, he had been ordained, but the university already had him as one of its preachers. In 1526, he obtained his Doctor of Divinity degree.
Not much is known about Cranmer's thoughts and experiences during his three decades at Cambridge. He has been traditionally seen as a humanist whose enthusiasm for biblical scholarship aided him in the adoption of Lutheran beliefs, which were also flourishing during the 1520s. A analysis of his marginalization shows an early antipathy to Martin Luther and an admiration for Erasmus. Cranmer was chosen for an embassy to the Holy Roman Emperor by Cardinal Wolsey, the king's Lord Chancellor, who selected several Cambridge scholars, including Edward Lee, Stephen Gardiner and Richard Sampson. His suspected participation in an earlier embassy in Spain, as well as the older literature, has been lauded.
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