Lesson 5 Flashcards
Describe the 1534 Act of Supremacy and the 1539 Six Articles Act.
1534 Act of Supremacy
- The pope refused to annul the marriage and this led to the 1534 Act of Supremacy. This Act was the self proclamation of King Henry VIII of England as the head of the Church of England.
1. King is head of Anglicana Ecclesia
2. Only supreme head in earth of the Church of England
3. Erastianism - State Dominance
1. Secular head of Government is head of the church
2. Thomas Erastmas
1539 Six Articles Act
- Now being the head of the new Church of England, he would enforce some new standards. In 1539 Henry asked the Duke of Norfolk to present parliament with Six articles. The Duke of Norfolk was a Roman Catholic and after presenting these to the parliament, Henry issued the Six Articles which aimed to restore the traditional Catholic faith in England. This was known as “a whip with six bloody strings.”
* Replaced the 10 articles - affirmed Catholisim (According to God’s Law)
* a whip with six bloody strings
1. Transubstantiation
2. Communion in one kind
3. Celibacy of clergy
4. Monastic vows
5. Private masses
6. Auricular confession
- All throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, the reformation in England was essentially a tug of war between the Protestants and the Catholics. Whomever had the political power, also had the power to bring about reforms either for Catholics or Protestants. During King Henry VIII’s reign, both the 1534 Act of Supremacy as well as the 1539 Six Articles Act, affected the Protestant Reformation in England in different ways.
- The pope refused to annul the marriage and this led to the 1534 Act of Supremacy. This Act was the self proclamation of King Henry VIII of England as the head of the Church of England.
- Now being the head of the new Church of England, he would enforce some new standards. In 1539 Henry asked the Duke of Norfolk to present parliament with Six articles. The Duke of Norfolk was a Roman Catholic and after presenting these to the parliament, Henry issued the Six Articles which aimed to restore the traditional Catholic faith in England. This was known as “a whip with six bloody strings.”
What were Thomas Cranmer’s contributions to the English Reformation?
As archbishop, he
1. put the English Bible in parish churches
2. drew up the Book of Common Prayer
3. Under the reign of Edward VI, Cranmer was allowed to make the doctrinal changes he thought necessary to the church.
4. orchestrated Henry VIII’s divorce from Katherine of Aragon
5. presided over England’s separation from the Roman Catholic Church.
6. He drafted the new English church’s 39 Articles and the Book of Common Prayer.
Denounced by the Catholic queen Mary I for promoting Protestantism, he was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake.
How was the Protestant cause furthered in England under Edward VI?
Influence
1. Repealed Six Articles
1. Reaffirm English Bible in every parish
1. Refugees from the Continent Entered England and had influence with Edware VI (Zwigly or Calvinists): Martin Bucer, Peter Martyr Vermigli, John Knox
1. Approved Crammer introducing Book of Common Prayer into the churches(1549) formed under Cranmer
1. Issues Act of Uniformity (1549) imposing book of common prayer
1. New taxes imposed
1. Issues 2nd Book of Common Prayer (1552)
A. Had to kneel for Lord’s Supper
1. Forty-Two Articles (1553)
A. Condemned purgatory, indulgences, images, relics, prayers to saints, mass, papacy
B. Affirmed justification by faith alone, predestination
What was accomplished in the Elizabethan Settlement?
Elizabethan Settlement
1. England thoroughly Protestant
2. Anglican establishment
3. Matthew Parker: Archbishop of Canterbury
4. Exiles become bishops
5. The Reformation and the English Monarchs
6. Reissue : Act of Supremacy (1559) (Catholic influence stopped)
7. reissue: Act of Uniformity (1559)
8. Reintroduced 2nd Book of Common Prayer (1552)
9. To deny the supremacy of the crown over the church was removal from office.
How did John Knox reform the church in Scotland?
Back to Scotland (1559 - 1572)
1. Sermon in 1559, against idolory (Catholisim) sparts a rebellion
2. Temperment and fiery spirit came out in preaching - especially during application of sermon texts
3. Knox and 5 others wrote Scots Confession (1560)
4. Helps write the Book of Discipline (1561)
* Education of all children (Boys and Girls)
* Organized Scotland under 10 dioceses with Superintendents
* English Bible, Psalms w/o Musical Instruments for worship
8. Book of Common Order (1564)
* Knox’s Liturgy
* Use of the Geneva Convesion
* How to practice excommunication
* Visitation of the sick
* Marriage / Baptism
* Election of elders, deacons
* Christian burial
9. Mary “Queen of Scots” returns to Scotland (1561-1567)
* Five interviews with Mary to get her to stop private Mass and return to prodestantism
* Writes Knox’s History of the Church in Scotland
* Mary executed in 1587
* James VI becomes king of Scotland
10. Dies in 1572
