Original sentence: However, during the short reign of Edward VI, his son, Cranmer was able to move the Church of England significantly towards a Protestant Calvinist position.Late to the Reformation, England's battles with the Papacy were, at first, largely political rather than theological.The Book of Common Prayer dates from this period.The theological justification for the Church of England was made by the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer who had studied in Europe and picked up Protestant ideas and also married.This reform was reversed abruptly in the subsequent reign of Mary I of England|Queen Mary]].While the Protestant Reformation in mainland Europe was largely a principled theological split from the Papacy, which had actively and imposingly wielded its political power, and Anglican ideals had been espoused by figures such as Stephen Langton and the Lollards, the English Reformation was initially driven by the dynastic goals of Henry VIII of England, who, in his quest for a queen to bear him a male heir, found it expedient and profitable to replace the Papacy with the English crown
Edited sentence: During his infamous quest for a queen to bear him a male heir, Henry VIII (though always referring to himself as "Catholic") broke from the Roman Catholic Church and its Papacy, establishing himself and his heirs as the highest officials of the Church of England.Late to the Reformation, England's battles with the Papacy were largely political rather than theological.Under Elizabeth I, theological ties to Protestantism were instituted.While the Protestant Reformation in mainland Europe was largely a principled theological split from the Papacy, which had actively and imposingly wielded its political power, and Anglican ideals had been espoused by figures such as Stephen Langton and the Lollards, the English Reformation was ultimately driven by the political goals of Henry VIII of England, who, in his quest for a queen to bear him a male heir, found it expedient and profitable to replace the Papacy with the English crown