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  England, Church of - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
ENGLAND, CHURCH OF [England, Church of] the established church of England and the mother church of the Anglican Communion.
During the Middle Ages the church in England was affected by the same clashes that bedevilled the relationship between church and state elsewhere in Europe.
This action, which created the Church of England, was occasioned by the pope's refusal to grant Henry's request for an annulment of his marriage to Katharine of Aragón.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/EnglandC1h.asp   (1678 words)

  
 History of the Church of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The specifically English church originates primarily from events in the late 6th century in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent, and the mission of Saint Augustine.
The church in England recognised Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England on February 11, 1531, however in 1532 he still continued to attempt to seek a compromise with the Pope.
In May 1532 the Church of England agreed to surrender its legislative independence and canon law to the authority of the monarch.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Church_of_England   (1690 words)

  
 English-Speaking Protestantism
In 1534 the Church of England separated itself from the Church of Rome because the Pope had refused to allow the English monarch, Henry VIII, to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon.
The definitive statement of the Church of England was produced in the form of the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563, which combine a Lutheran understanding of justification and a reformed understanding of election and the sacraments.
Somewhat related in theology to the Baptist churches are those churches which are sometimes referred to as millenial or adventist on account of their belief in the imminent second coming of Jesus.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Schism
Schism (from the Greek schisma, rent, division) is, in the language of theology and canon law, the rupture of ecclesiastical union and unity, i.
As schism in its definition and full sense is the practical denial of ecclesiastical unity, the explanation of the former requires a clear definition of the latter, and to prove the necessity of the latter is to establish the intrinsic malice of the former.
Moreover the Greeks recognized in the Roman Church a pre-eminence and consequently an incontestable unifying rôle by acknowledging her right to intervene in the disputes of the particular Churches, as is proved by the cases of Athanasius, Marcellus of Ancyra, and Chrysostom.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Anglicanism
The members of the Church of England are professed Christians, and claim to be baptized members of the Church of Christ.
Although the policy of Henry VIII, after the breach with Rome, was ostensibly conservative, and his ideal seemed to be the maintenance of a Catholic Church in England, minus the Pope, it is incontestable that in other ways his action was in fatal contradiction to his professions.
A second influence is that of rationalism, which, both in England and in Germany, has acted as a solvent of Protestantism, especially in the form of destructive biblical criticism, and which, often in the effort to sublimate religion, has induced an aversion to all that is dogmatic, supernatural, or miraculous.
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 ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF - Online Information article about ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF
The organization of the Scotic Church in Ireland was similar to that of the British Church.
Dunstan sought to reform the church by ecclesiastical and secular legislation, forbidding immorality among laymen, insisting on the duties of the clergy, and compelling the payment of tithes and other church dues.
Conquest the church had relapsed into deadness: English bishops were political partisans, the clergy were married, and discipline and asceticism, then the recognized condition of holiness, were extinct.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /EMS_EUD/ENGLAND_THE_CHURCH_OF.html   (5094 words)

  
 End of Europe's Middle Ages - The Church
Although religion and faith continued to dominate virtually every aspect of life, the influence of the Church suffered greatly during the late Middle Ages and, by the beginning of the sixteenth century, its power would shift from the temporal commonwealth of Christendom to individual secular rulers.
Church theologians began to recognize that the ideas of individual piety and personal salvation would not disappear and educated themselves in the arguments they would need to counter further attacks on the preeminence of the Church.
Thus at the close of the fifteenth century, the Catholic Church remained far from its former position as the supreme religious and secular authority in Europe but at least some of the initial moves were being made that would allow it to survive the forthcoming tempest of the Reformation.
www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/church.html   (1420 words)

  
 SCHISM, APOSTASY, ANGLICAN ORDERS AND ECUMENISM By K. Platt
Subsequently in declaring himself to be the Supreme Head of the Church in England in 1534 after the Pope had upheld the validity of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, by refusing him a declaration of nullity, (he had not sought a divorce) he went into schism and, in usurping papal authority, into heresy.
The Church in England was reconciled to Rome by Cardinal Pole.
The Church of England dates from 29th April 1559, with the passage of the Act of Supremacy and the Act of Uniformity.
www.churchinhistory.org /pages/leaflets/schism.htm   (1703 words)

  
 Timeline of Church History - OrthodoxWiki
466 Church of Antioch elevates the bishop of Mtskheta to the rank of Catholicos of Kartli, thus rendering the Church of Georgia autocephalous.
1589 Autocephaly of the Church of Russia recognized; the primate of the Church of Russia is styled as "patriarch."
1924 Church of Constantinople recognizes the autocephaly of the Church of Poland.
www.orthodoxwiki.org /Timeline_of_Church_History   (5076 words)

  
 The Church
The true church is a group of born-again baptized believers, who have a common bond of having Christ in their lives, having been born again, made new creatures in Christ Jesus, and trying to propagate that wonderful message, so that others can receive the message of grace.
The New Testament church is not the successor to the Temple.
The church is not the successor to the Tabernacle.
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 The Continuity of the Church of England, by F.W. Puller
And we of the Church of England think of ourselves as forming another part of the same Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; and we are therefore accustomed to regard the holy Church of Russia and all the holy Orthodox Churches of the East, as Churches which are sisters of the holy Church of England.
Before I pass on to the later history of the Church of England, I ought to mention that, while S. Augustine and his companions, who came from Rome, were the earliest missionaries who preached the gospel to the English nation, their labours were for the most part confined to the South of England.
It is important to notice that the Church of England never withdrew her communion from the Church of Rome, though she did repudiate the Pope's baseless claims.
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 England, Church of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
the established church of England and the mother church of the Anglican Communion.
1965); R. Lloyd, The Church of England, 1900–1965 (1966); W. Haugaard, Elizabeth and the English Reformation (1968); M. Crowther, Church Embattled (1970); S. Ollard et al., ed., A Dictionary of English Church History (9th ed.
1970); J. Cox, The English Churches in a Secular Society (1982); R. Manwaring, From Controversy to Co-Existence: Evangelicals in the Church of England, 1914–1980 (1985).
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 The Battle for the Faith in England
The Reformation in England, therefore, was far from being the outcome of the aspirations of the English people towards freedom in religious matters, or a natural and necessary development in the history of the nation.
The beginning of Elizabeth s reign was such as to fill the hearts of her Catholic subjects with hope: outwardly the queen professed the old faith, attended Mass, and received the sacraments, and promised at her coronation to protect the Catholic faith.
By the year 1603, which ended the monstrous regiment (rule) of Elizabeth, the number of Catholics in England had been reduced by death or exile to one-third of the total population, their condition being rendered doubly pitiable by the dearth of priests.
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 The Church
Flick, A. The Rise of the Medieval Church, New York, 1909.
Pantin, W. The English Church in the Fourteenth Century, Cambridge, 1955.
Undreiner, G. Church and Culture in the Middle Ages, Paterson, NJ, 1956.
home.olemiss.edu /~tjray/medieval/church.htm   (531 words)

  
 St. Luke Anglican Catholic Church, Augusta, Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This led to a tragic division in the Church, the "Great Schism" of 1054, when it split into the "Orthodox" East and the "Roman Catholic" West.
Not directly involved in that split was the Church in England, which the Bishops of Rome were determined to claim — especially after 1061, when a rival Papacy in Lombardy claimed allegiance from the See of Canterbury.
In 1066, the Duke of Normandy (William "the Conqueror"), with the support and formal blessing of Pope Alexander II, invaded England.
www.knology.net /~stluke81/GreatSchism.htm   (183 words)

  
 Find in a Library: A vindication of the Church of England from the foul aspersions of schism and heresie unjustly cast ...
Find in a Library: A vindication of the Church of England from the foul aspersions of schism and heresie unjustly cast upon her by the Church of Rome
A vindication of the Church of England from the foul aspersions of schism and heresie unjustly cast upon her by the Church of Rome
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