English Missions Flashcards
How’d separation of church/state work out
Gov’t did not support the clergy with aid. Allowed them to exists
How’d separation of church/state work out
Gov’t did not support the clergy with aid. Allowed them to exists. Calvert wanted to remain neutral and req’d them to survive on their own. Not the same privileges as in England.
What caused Mary Land’s problems between Prots and Catholics
- Favoritism / Class issues in England
- elite catholics / protestant slaves /low class - Population imbalance
Calvert names in order
GCL
George, Cecil, Leonard
Ark & Dove
Ships that LEONARD Calvert and crew arrived on
VA’s protestant attack
Overthrew Calvert rule. 4 yrs. Religious Toleration ends - CoE official religion
St. Mary Capital named for
Henrietta Marie
Act of Religious Toleration
defined what people can’t do and what they can be promised: don’t deny God etc., don’t label people, drunk. NO ONE WHO believe in Christ shall be troubled because of their faith. (No mention of Native members).
Jesuits
attempt mission work, but encounter problems. Focus on ministry to the colonists.
Fr. White’s travel log
Jesuit priest travel log to religious superiors and others detailing the missions
1704 - Act that prohibited Catholics from practicing their religion
Priests forbidden from teaching, parents forbidden.
Jesuits
attempt mission work, but encounter problems. Focus on ministry to the colonists.
Kent Island
contested property between VA puritans and Mary Land. Asked King - sided with CALVERT
1692 Act of Religion
Penal Laws of England against Catholics enforced, Catholics not able to serve in gov’t positions.
Calvert’s focus on Religious Toleration
Wanted Catholics to remain quiet and reserved about their faith, no proselytizing etc.
Sole Prop
erect churches, control gov’t
King Charles I gives charter for Mary Lan to George Calvert / Cecil Calvert as a ____. Gives power to ________
Garden of the Soul
Bp. Calloncer
4 ACTS of Mary Land area re religion
1649 Act of Religious Toleration: all Christians
1654-1658 VA Prot. Attack
1692 Act of Religion: penal laws
1704 Act prohibits. Catholics
Time moves on - what went well?
- increased rel. vocations esp from upper class
- increased lay persons
- Expanding to PA w/ liberal Quaker policy
Plantation manors
Jesuit setup for substance and ministry.
English Civil War
Puritans fighting against the crown. Trouble in England. Mary Land was founded by loyalists, VA was founded by Puritans. Trouble at home = trouble in the new world
Thomas Cornwallis
Lots of damage after the invasion by VA puritans. Cornwallis big investor in colony, lost alot of his investments, returned to England
Puritans
VA’s population / protestant / anti Catholic/papist
Parish Structure
After growth, Plantations began setting up parishes with separate church buildings, fellowship, education, country chapels, registers of sacraments