ABSTRACT
Bemoaning the influence of Max Weber's thesis that Protestant theology necessarily devalues the sacraments, Arnold Hunt noted as recently as 1998 that the secondary literature on the sacraments in early modern England leaves much to be desired' and that the sacraments need to be placed at the centre of historical debate on the English Reformation'. Theological polemicists on all sides were increasingly forced to recognise that the Eucharist would be one of the primary fields on which the battle for England's theological identity was to be fought. Vaughan's most fulsome praise, however, was reserved for Robert Barnes, another Antwerp exile who would become a thorn in the side of Thomas More. The observation of William Clebsch, that English evangelicals tended to lean philosophically toward Occamism, while More adhered more closely to Scotism, might partially explain More's exasperation with Frith's denial of the possibility of multilocation.
