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>In the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553), the Church of England underwent an extensive theological reformation. Justification by faith was made a central teaching.[25] Government-sanctioned iconoclasm led to the destruction of images and relics. Stained glass, shrines, statues, and roods were defaced or destroyed. Church walls were whitewashed and covered with biblical texts condemning idolatry.[26] The most significant reform in Edward's reign was the adoption of an English liturgy to replace the old Latin rites.[27] Written by the Protestant reformer archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the 1549 Book of Common Prayer implicitly taught justification by faith,[28] and rejected the Catholic doctrines of transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the Mass.[29] This was followed by a greatly revised 1552 Book of Common Prayer, which propounded a Reformed view of the Lord's Supper (cf. Lord's Supper in Reformed theology).[30] Along with The Book of Common Prayer, The Thirty-nine Articles and The Books of Homilies, assembled through the efforts of the reformer Thomas Cranmer, became the basis of Anglican doctrine after the English Reformation.[3]