Original sentence: Anglicanism, in its structures, theology, and forms of worship, is commonly understood as a distinct Christian tradition representing a middle ground between what are perceived to be the extremes of the claims of 16th-century Roman Catholicism and the Lutheran and Reformed varieties of Protestantism of that era.As such, it is often referred to as being a via media (or "middle way") between these traditions
Edited sentence: Anglicanism, in its structures, theology, and forms of worship, is a Christian tradition representing, in the words of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of the Reformation, "a middle way between Zurich and Wittenberg", that is, between the Reformed Christianity of Calvin and Lutheranism.This via media (or "middle way") was later reinterpreted by John Henry Newman and the Tractarians as meaning the middle ground between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, however, Anglicanism is a Protestant denomination, not a separate group