A paragraph that stuck out to me in a book I am reading by Paul Avis
The revisionists have made their point. The Reformation in England was not the smooth, uninterrupted outworking of a coherent plan, conceived in the minds of Cranmer and Jewel. It was a complex, contingent, contradictory concatenation of incidents. As Haigh puts it: ‘The religious changes of sixteenth-century England were far too complex to be bound together as “the Reformation”, too complex even to be “a Reformation”. England had discontinuous Reformations and parallel Reformations … England had blundering Reformations, which most did not understand, which few wanted, and which no-one knew had come to stay’ (Haigh, 1993, p. 14).
Anglicanism And The Christian Church: Theological Resources In Historical Perspective, p. 5, Paul Avis
