HIST 2260 Lecture Notes - Clapham Sect, Church Mission Society, Sola Scriptura
27 Sep 2013
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England to be dominated theologically by calvinism for more than a century, but was calvinism modified by a royal determination to keep certain aspects of catholicism odd mixture, lead to conflict. Henry viii, edward vi, and mary: the first interlude. 1534 - henry viii was proclaimed supreme head of church in england. England to become identified with one national group rather than many. Was to be followed by short-lived son, then two daughters (second - remembered as england"s greatest monarch) For ordinary people, little changed in religious practices except for slow introduction of english into services. Major change that altered landscape of faith was dissolution of monasteries (1536: henry needed money and expropriated buildings and lands of monasteries, sold them off to private individuals. Most of monks and nuns pensioned off, though some of men became parish priests in local churches.
