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The Reformation in England This paper will brief

This paper will briefly discuss the Protestant Reformation in England in the Sixteenth Century. The first part of the paper will examine the background to the Reformation by looking at the Church in England prior to the Reformation. The second part of the paper will discuss how the conflict between King Henry VIII and Rome arose and the role of Spain in precipitating a crisis. The third part of the paper will look at how Henry effected the break with Rome and why he chose to make the break political rather than theological. The fourth part of the paper will discuss how the reformation took on a more radical nature after Henry's death, how his daughter Mary attempted to return England to Rome, and how Elizabeth I established a more moderate course. The last part of the paper will briefly look at the other major Protestant movements in Britain at this time, particularly Calvinism.

During the Sixteenth Century, England did not experience the violent religious ferment taking place in the continental countries. It had had enough violent political conflict during the Wars of the Roses in the previous century and experienced a brief period of sectarianism and heresy during that same period with the calls for separation from the papacy emanating from Wycliff and John Gaunt. At the beginning of the Sixteenth Century, England was ready for a period of order and security (Bainton, Reformation, 183-84).

It achieved this through an increase in nationalistic feeling. The English and their leaders came together by uniting against internal dissension and external interference. Among the external interlopers was the pope. Even prior to the Reformation, the Church in England had taken an independent course with regard to authority. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stood at the pinnacle of the Church in England. He was the head representative of the Church in England and effectively led the religious. But he was also an appointee of the King,...

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