He created an independent Church of England of which he was the head. Henry needed to free himself from his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, who had not provided him with a male heir. However ...

Reformation. However, the legacy of Edward VI’s Protestant reforms can still be felt today across England — such as the eating of bread and drinking of wine (rather than the traditional ...

Each church is distinct and autonomous, but all share a history and beliefs with the Church of England. The Anglican ...

Before the Reformation, most people in England were Catholic. Their lives centred around the ideas and beliefs of the Catholic Church. This meant that, for many people, Henry’s break with Rome ...

Led to the creation of Protestant churches separate from the Roman Catholic Church The Church of England broke from the Roman Catholic Church later in the 16th Century As the Reformation spread ...

Topics include Puritan networks and nomenclature in England and in the New World; examinations of the changing theology of the Church in the century after the Reformation; the evolving relationship of ...

But for reasons only God knows, Luther had a particular ability to spark the fire of Reformation in a way that would impact the entire Christian world. To understand Luther, we need to understand the ...

The last English canonisations were in 1970 of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales ... and 1679 under laws enacted during the English Reformation. The process cannot begin until at least ...

Topics include Puritan networks and nomenclature in England and in the New World; examinations of the changing theology of the Church in the century after the Reformation; the evolving relationship of ...