'The church in England in 1547 was little different from what it had been in the 1520s' assess the validity of this view

Agree

• ‘Catholicism without the Pope’

• ideas of the doctrine remained the same

• Latin services

disagree

• Henry now supreme leader of the church (Act of Supremacy 1534), Pope becomes Bishop of Rome

• dissolved monasteries

• Henry withdrew the church from the control of the Papacy

• doctrines are altered

• 1536 Act of 10 Articles rejected 4 of 7 sacraments

• English Bible published 1539

• 1537 Bishop Book rejected transubstantiation

• king appoints Cromwell Vicegerent in spirituals 1534, this meant he outranked the archbishops and the bishops

• 6 new dioceses were created but soon abolished (areas under the jurisdiction of a bishop)

1536 ten articles

• only 3 sacraments, baptism, penance and Eucharist, were seen as necessary to salvation but the definition was ambiguous (Lutheran)

• confession was praised (Catholic)

• praying to saints for remission of sins was rejected but praying to saints for other purposes was okay (Lutheran)

• ambiguous document which showed both Lutheran and Catholic influence on the development of doctrine

1537 Bishops’ book

• restored the 4 sacraments omitted from the 10 articles, but the 4 restored were given a lower status

• this was therefore a more conservative document than the 10 articles

1529 Six Articles Act

• reasserted Catholic doctrine

• denial of transubstantiation was considered heretical

• this was a triumph of the conservatives. It was founded on the assumption that there had been too much religious controversy and that undermined the good ordering of society, 2 reforming bishops resigned their posts

1543 King’s book

• revised Bishops’ book

• emphasis was largely conservative but some Lutheran hints

Supremacy

1534 act of supremacy

Hviii became head of the church

Pope became Bishop of Rome

doctrine

• conservative approach

• 1539 - 6 articles act, Martin Luther - religious reformer

• Bible 1539 - translated English Bible

• 1543 - act of advancement - religion changed to upper classes only (Bible was only accessible to the upper classes)

practices

• Latin service

• Catholic church appearance

• monasteries alienated services and practices

monastries

• 1520s- Wolsey started dissolving monasteries

• 1536 - dissolution of monasteries

organisation

• parish had a church, centre of worship

• finance

• 1534 Acts if Restraints