The Middle Way in English Politics

The Book of Common Prayer was a product of Henry's son, boy king Edward VI. By then things have decisively moved in English politics towards the group who were convinced Protestants. You look at the form of the what Cranmer called the Holy Communion which had been called the Mass Eucharist if you like. And what you're looking at there is an emphatically Protestant Eucharist and also an emphatically let's use a technical term reformed Eucharist. In other words not Lutheran. The great divide in the Reformation across Europe had already happened by the time that this service was devised by Cranmer and his fellow bishops 1552.