Lessons from When the Reformation: When papal power trumps legitimate debate.

This article compares the way in which an appeal to papal authority was used to stifle legitimate debate over Luther's Ninety-five Theses with the way in which a similar appeal was used at the Synod of Whitby to stifle legitimate practices in Anglo-Saxon England. Anne Inman is a retired lecturer in Theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]