Puritanism Flashcards
Define Puritan extremism:
Radical views and actions against Elizabeth’s settlement of 1559, not accepting the settlement as final and complete.
What and when was Jewel’s Apology?
1562.
A book written on protestantism as being the true faith and how the Elizabethan settlement hadn’t gone far enough.
Who were courtly protectors of puritanism?
Leicester (Robert Dudley)
Huntingdon
Bedford
What was the Vesterian controversy?
Puritan Priests refused to wear vestments as they were too catholic and superstitious.
Elizabeth did offer a compromise for them to wear a surplice but they rejected.
What was the Oath of Supremacy?
An oath that was organised where all clergymen had to express whether they accepted or rejected the Elizabethan settlement. Many accepted as to avoid losing their posts.
In what decade did the Puritan movement become more organised?
1580s.
What did Leicester do to help the puritan movement?
He helped John Field secure a preaching licence after publishing the admonitions to parliament.
The Presbyterian movement remained geographically concentrated to which regions at the end of the 1580s?
London and Cambridge University (Where Thomas Cartwright formally taught).
When was the Act of Seditious Sectaries?
1593
What were Prophesyings?
Emerged as a group to suggest reforms to the Church. The group remained dominated by puritan extremism and led to a quarrel with Grindal.
Which faction of puritans were greater in number?
Mainstream.
What do Mainstream Puritans believe?
They challenge the Act of Uniformity,l and Elizabeth’s power and authority.
What did Grindal say to Elizabeth about not interfering in religion?
“Remember Madam, you are a mortal creature”
What year was Parker’s Advertisements?
1566
What was said in the 1583 Articles?
Elizabeth chose Whitgift as her last Archbishop with the aim of crushing puritans and suppressing prophesyings.
What did Presbyterians believe?
They wished to remove bishops from the church and adopt a Calvinistic system.
What and when was the Admonitions to Parliament?
1572.
They were written by John Field and Thomas Wilcox and attacked Elizabeth’s settlement, and her Bishops.
What was the Classis System?
Organised by John Field to reform the church from within.
How did Presbytarians attack the Church and the State?
The next generation of clergy were influenced by Cartwright.
There were rude attacks that showed no respect fro Elizabeth’s Church.
Embarrassing pamphlet warfare.
Harsh attacks on Bishops were very extreme.
