The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaption | 
Page 147: 'In practice the communities of England looked less like the New Jerusalem than like confessionally confused commonwealths in which people of various opinions about ecclesiology and soteriology mixed indiscriminately and used religion when it was convenient.'
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'The ideal Protestant minister had a degree, a wife and family, and he was in short supply until late in Elizabeth's reign.'
'"No man is an island, entire of itself" wrote John Donne in middle age, making a point historians must remember. All histories are congregations of biographies, and all biographers track their subjects through public spaces.'
I agree, and this is why I have always intershelved the histories and biographies in our home library.
'[Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper] was burnt to death for heresy in 1555. A man who would not compromise, he undoubtedly approved of the punishment even if he knew that the wrong people were being burned.'
