English Reformation | Wikipedia audio article
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English Reformation


00:03:16 1 Background
00:03:25 1.1 Henry VIII: marriages and desire for a male heir
00:07:20 1.2 Parliamentary debate and legislation
00:08:40 1.3 Actions by Henry against English clergy
00:11:02 1.4 Further legislative acts
00:15:18 2 Early reform movements
00:21:29 3 Henrician Reformation
00:21:39 3.1 Moderate reform
00:27:04 3.2 Dissolution of the monasteries
00:32:06 3.3 Reformation reversed
00:39:09 4 Edward's Reformation
00:44:34 5 Marian Restoration
00:49:21 6 Elizabethan Settlement
00:52:34 6.1 Act of Supremacy 1558
00:54:58 6.2 Act of Uniformity 1558
00:59:18 6.3 Puritans and Roman Catholics
01:04:12 7 Legacy
01:05:43 8 Historiography
01:09:16 9 See also
01:09:35 10 Notes
01:09:44 10.1 Historiography
01:11:34 10.2 Primary sources
01:12:10 11 Further reading
01:16:10 12 External links



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The English Reformation was a series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. These events were, in part, associated with the wider process of the European Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity across western and central Europe during this period. Many factors contributed to the process: the decline of feudalism and the rise of nationalism, the rise of the common law, the invention of the printing press and increased circulation of the Bible, and the transmission of new knowledge and ideas among scholars, the upper and middle classes and readers in general. However, the various phases of the English Reformation, which also covered Wales and Ireland, were largely driven by changes in government policy, to which public opinion gradually accommodated itself.
Based on Henry VIII's desire for an annulment of his marriage (first requested of Pope Clement VII in 1527), the English Reformation was at the outset more of a political affair than a theological dispute. The reality of political differences between Rome and England allowed growing theological disputes to come to the fore. Until the break with Rome, it was the Pope and general councils of the Church that decided doctrine. Church law was governed by canon law with final jurisdiction in Rome. Church taxes were paid straight to Rome, and the Pope had the final word in the appointment of bishops.
The break with Rome was effected by a series of acts of Parliament passed between 1532 and 1534, among them the 1534 Act of Supremacy, which declared that Henry was the "Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England". (This title was renounced by Mary I in 1553 in the process of restoring papal jurisdiction; when Elizabeth I reasserted the royal supremacy in 1559, her title was Supreme Governor.) Final authority in doctrinal and legal disputes now rested with the monarch, and the papacy was deprived of revenue and the final say on the appointment of bishops.
The theology and liturgy of the Church of England became markedly Protestant during the reign of Henry's son Edward VI largely along lines laid down by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. Under Mary, the whole process was reversed and the Church of England was again placed under papal jurisdiction. Soon after, Elizabeth reintroduced the Protestant faith but in a more moderate manner. The structure and theology of the church was a matter of fierce dispute for generations.
The violent aspect of these disputes, manifested in the English Civil Wars, ended when the last Roman Catholic monarch, James II, was deposed, and Parliament asked William III and Mary II to rule jointly in conjunction with the English Bill of Rights in 1688 (in the "Glorious Revolution"), from which emerged a church polity with an established church and a number of non-conformist churches whose members at first suffered various civil disabilities that were removed over time. The legacy of the past Roman Catholic Establishment remained an issue for some  ...