The most striking expression of this mood of concession to old and new alike was the first effort to define what the infant Church of England believed: ten Articles of religion approved by Convocation that summer. Reflecting what was obviously quite a tussle between evangelicals and conservatives in Convocation, they uncomfortably amalgamated material from several months of Bishop Foxe’s gritty theological discussion with Lutherans in Germany, with stout rearguard action from bishops like Cuthbert Tunstall in defence of traditional doctrine. Confession to a priest, for instance, was defended
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