Protestant Views
Although the Sign of the Cross dates to ante-Nicene Christianity, it was rejected by some of the Reformers, and is absent from most forms of Protestantism. Since the Reformation it has often been rejected by Protestants and some Low-Church Anglicans as being a Catholic practice, despite Martin Luther's positive personal view, the prescribed use of the sign in Book of Common Prayer and the defence of the sign of the cross in Anglican canon law in 1604.
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