Church Under Queen E influences

Question 1

Henry VIII Background (3):

Answer 1

1. book about 7 sacraments-defender of the sacraments
2. annul marriage to
   Catherine, due to no male heir, severed ties with Rome;
   Cranmer made Archbishop of Canterbury and
   annulled King’s marriage
   3: Acts:
   Act of Royal Supremacy: all heirs would be supreme
   head on earth of Church of England.
   The Act of 6 Articles; ​reinforced existing
   heresy laws and reasserted traditional Catholic doctrine as the basis of faith for
   the English Church.

Question 2

Acts under Henry VIII (2)

Answer 2

Act of Royal Supremacy: all heirs would be supreme
head on earth of Church of England.

The Act of 6 Articles; ​reinforced existing
heresy laws and reasserted traditional Catholic doctrine as the basis of faith for
the English Church.

Question 3

Henry VIII influence

Answer 3

Elizabeth Reinstituted Act of Royal Supremacy,but changed the language—took title of
Supreme Governor instead of Supreme Head

Question 4

Edward VI background

Answer 4

Book of Common Prayer: contained words of
structure liturgical worship.​Forty-Two Articles (part of book of Common prayer)
were written under the direction of ​Archbishop​ ​Thomas Cranmer​ i​n 1552. It was
in this document that Calvinist thought reached the zenith of its influence in the
English Church.

Question 5

Influence of Edward VI

Answer 5

42 articles provided blueprint for

1571 39 Articles of Faith under Elizabeth

Question 6

Mary Influence

Answer 6

Restored Catholicism: so that when Elizabeth came in, toned down the Calvinist voice in 42 articles, established halfway house act of uniformity

Question 7

The fuck is

Act of Uniformity:

Answer 7

establishing uniform liturgy and theology. Reformed articles: 42 Articles: to better situate
Church—observance of liturgy much closer to Catholicism-vestments, church calendar;
but no longer Latin mass, but evangelical preaching undergirded by 39 articles-tenets of
Protestantism.

Question 8

Dissatisfaction with this “halfway house”

Answer 8

Question of Adiaphora

Lutherans believed that as long as it was not banned in the Bible, it was okay! (characteristic of Episcopalians)

Zwinglians said that if it was not in the Bible, then it was not okay! (characteristic of Presbyterians)

Question 9

(3) options for Puritans under Elizabeth:

Answer 9

1)conforming (stay with church of England); 2) Non

Conforming, non separatist; 3) Nonconforming, separatist.

Question 10

Henry’s 6 Articles (5)

Answer 10

More Catholic
● Celibacy of clergy members
● No remarriage after spouse dies
● Confession of sins to priest or pope
● Transubstantiation: the bread and wine are transformed
into the body and blood of Christ
● Mass was important to continue

Question 11

Protestant Changes in 39 articles (6)

Answer 11

● There is an emphasis on justification by faith alone, not
by works
● Denied the existence of purgatory
● Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as the only two biblical
sacraments
● Preachers and ministers are fallible, and ought to be
corrected with grace and truth
● No more celibacy necessary for priests; up to their own
discretion
● No more mass, but teachings

Question 12

4 issues Puritans had with church of England

Answer 12

1. wanted more centrality of the word
2. via media (middle way) not a radical change but a bastardizing of catholicism AND reformation efforts
3. clergy is too hierarchical (and bishops are wicked)
4. Didn’t like formality

Question 13

define adiaphora

Answer 13

matters not regarded as essential to faith, but nevertheless as
permissible for Christians or allowed in church

Question 14

Anglican Act of Uniformity (1559)

Answer 14

set up uniform liturgy and theology

Question 15

Elizabethan Settlement can be called “Religion within the bounds of Realpolitik (e.g., for political expediency) alone.”

Answer 15

religion as a means of maintaining political and social order.

This theology developed as a means of asserting the dominance of the Church of England without adopting any ideas that were too radical.

Question 16

light do the Act of the Six Articles shed on the nature and shape of the Henrician Reformation

Answer 16

Catholic in Theology, from Holy Communion to Clerical Celibacy

sort of ​via Media because Henry also supported people who had unswerving commitments to Protestantism