Cranmer's Godly Order by Michael Davies. Cranmer's Godly Order is a model of historical synthesis. Drawing upon the best of Catholic and Protestant scholarships and on primary sources, Davies traces the steps by which the ancient Catholic Mass became the Lord's Supper in the Church of England. And these steps were changes—as popes and Reformers alike were at pains to stress. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII and Edward VI and architect of the new liturgy, was a master of the theology of the Mass, and hated it. The parallels between the Anglican liturgy and the New Mass of the 1960s will be uncomfortably obvious. Illustrated; hard cover. |