ABSTRACT
Reform sprang and was governed by traditional sensory culture and its continued objective of instilling godly virtue in the hearts of English men and women. It was liturgical provision in the most basic sense, being driven by fear of what false religious sensations did to churchgoers. Returning for a moment to pre-reformation principles, provision and discernment were shaped by Thomas' sensing and speculation: institutional hierarchy set parameters and adjudicated of liturgical custom, balancing the integrity of the church's teaching with speculative presentation of the infinite facets of the divine. The linguistic diversity of Tudor realms must have been rivalled by their attempts at gestural aesthetic uniformity. Reformed English worship was a site that negotiated experience and knowledge of the divine in gesture, speech, their comprehension as the Word, and lastly how these sensibilities interacted physically and spiritually with English churchgoers.
