1.3 Challenges To The Religious Settlement Flashcards
Where did the Puritan threat come from
Within the Church of England itself, especially the bishops
What had the Puritans’ hoped the religious settlement would do?
-have more protestant reforms(it didn’t(
What two issues were the Puritans very unhappy about
- crucifixes
- clothing(vestments)
Describe how the Puritans won the crucifix controversy?
- Puritans believed Crucifixes represented idols
- Elizabeth liked then and didn’t want to change much to soon in an effort to please her Catholic subjects
- Elizbeth demands that each church should have a crucifix
- puritan bishops threaten to resign and Elizabeth backs down
Descibe the different views on the vestement contraversy, Catholic V Puritan
Elaborate vestments suggested Priests were set apart from ordinary people
- this was important for Catholics because a Priest turns the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ
- Protestants disliked it and Puritans hated it
How is the Vestment contraversy solved
(Extra: Elizabeth had ordered Priests to wear Vestments in the Royal injunctions
- by 1565 it was clear that ntotnall of the clergy was obeying
- The Rchbishop of Canterbury invites 110 priests to London for an exhibition on the issue, 37 don’t attend and lose their posts
Big Liz wins this one
Catholic challenge: How was the Papacy a challenge for the Religious settlement?
The Pope had told Catholics in England not to attend Church of England serivces
Catholics appeared to have to choose between the Pope and Elizabeth
How did Elizbeth deal with the threat from the papacy?
She did not want to create martyrs and so she ignored smaller examples of disobedience(because of this England was stable for the first ten years of her reign)
