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4 days ago · The conclusion which follows contains an interesting comparison between the ejected clergy of the 1640s and the 1650s and the clergymen ejected during the early 1660s, though McCall’s contention that after the restoration settlement, ‘the Anglican clergy were tolerated as a least-worst solution’ by the new ‘power brokers’ is strange ...
2 days ago · Show More. Church of England, English national church that traces its history back to the arrival of Christianity in Britain during the 2nd century. It has been the original church of the Anglican Communion since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. As the successor of the Anglo-Saxon and medieval English church, it has valued and preserved ...
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4 days ago · Parishioners were similarly varied. In theory, every adult was supposed to attend church on Sundays and on feast days. For millions of medieval people, regular churchgoing must have been an important part of their daily lives, and all the main events in their lives, from cradle to grave, were accompanied by religious rituals.
5 days ago · The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Reformation, a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity in Western and ...
2 days ago · t. e. The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church. Following the start of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked ...
5 days ago · The answer is yes. There are two main ideas that will help us see this, family, in particular fatherhood, and sacrifice. Let’s look at sacrifice first. With regard to sacrifice we know that ...
3 days ago · In an important and useful chapter, Kenneth Fincham and Stephen Taylor bring to bear the data compiled for their Clergy database project. In their essay, 'Episcopalian conformity and nonconformity, 1646–60', they show among other things, that ordinations by the remains of the episcopal hierarchy continued after the civil war, and they have ...