The Tudor Religious Pendulum

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The Tudor Religious Pendulum

• Part deux Elizabeth I

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• When Edward VI came to the throne England was no
  longer a Catholic country. Henry VIII had started
  to make England Protestant. However, he had kept
  many aspects of the Catholic religion in England.
• We say that the Church by the end of Henry VIIIs
  reign is Anglo-Catholic.

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The religious pendulum.
Protestant
Roman Catholic

• Edward VI

• Henry VII
• Mary I

Church of England
Anglo-Catholic

• Henry VIII

• Elizabeth I

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Changes under Edward

• Henry VIII started the religious changes in
  England. However, it was not until his son Edward
  came to the throne that England became a fully
  Protestant country.
• Edward and his advisors carried out Martin
  Luthers ideas to the letter. Services were in
  English, the bible was translated, priests were
  allowed to marry, churches were made plain and
  the Pope and Catholics were made into hate
  figures.

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Religion during Elizabeths reign

• A Middle Way?
• When Elizabeth came to the throne one of her most
  serious problems was solving the religious
  problem. Should England be Protestant or
  Catholic? If it was Protestant the Catholics
  would be unhappy and vice a versa.

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IMPORTANT!

• Elizabeth decided to make England Protestant
  again, after all she had been brought up as one.
  However, she did not make the Church completely
  Protestant as Edward (her brother) had done. She
  was keen to put an end to the constant conflict
  between Catholics and Protestants. So she
  compromised and established the Church of England.

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• Her aim was to keep the majority of Catholics and
  the majority of Protestants happy. They would
  each get some of their own traditions in the
  Church of England, although ultimately it would
  be Protestant.