Edward Religious Acts

Question 1

Different religious events (11)

Answer 1

1547 Injunctions
1547 Book of Common Prayer
1547 Chantries Act
1547 Book of Homilies
1549 Act of Uniformity 
1549 Clerical Marriage
1550 2nd Book of Common Prayer
1550 Ordinal
1550 Altars
1552 Black Rubric
1552 42 Articles

Question 2

1547 Injunctions

Answer 2

Prohibition of worshipping images repeated

Question 3

1547 Prayer Book

Answer 3

Cleansed of Catholic superstition but structure of Mass preserved

Raising bread or wine banned

Question 4

1547 Chantries Act

Answer 4

Attack of purgatory (4,000 chantries seized)

Question 5

1547 Book of Homilies

Answer 5

Clergy banned from preaching and this issued whilst church doctrine under review

Homilies in English - one argues for justification by faith alone but other written by Bonner shows conservativism

Question 6

1549 Clerical Marriage

Answer 6

Made priests of earthly concern and lustful sinners like everyone else

1/3 got married, some revealed wives (e.g. Cranmer) and others stayed celibate)

Question 7

1549 Uniformity

Answer 7

Forced clergy and laity to accept 1st prayer book

Question 8

1550 2nd Prayer Book

Answer 8

Very Protestant and removed any Catholic belief (fully reformed liturgy and doctrine)

Eucharist is only in remembrance of Jesus’ sacrifice

Question 9

1550 Ordinal

Answer 9

Ordination of Protestant priests/bishops only

All became radicals rather than Catholic sympathisers

Question 10

1550 Altars

Answer 10

Present nature is significant

Question 11

1552 Black Rubric

Answer 11

No kneeling when receding the Eucharist

Question 12

1552 42 Articles

Answer 12

Justification by faith emphasised, predestination accepted

Anabaptists, Protestant extremists and Catholics condemned - transubstantiation, purgatory, invocation of saints condemned

Predestination was ambiguous (only good were said to be determined)