Church Of England

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Term Paper Title	Church Of England
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Church of England

     Since the Reformation, the Church of England or Anglican Church has been the established branch of the Christian church in England.  Throughout the medieval period, English kings tried to limit the power of the church and the claims of its independent canon law.  All of this was without success until the reign of Henry VIII.  Parliament's acts between 1529 and 1536 represent the beginning of the Anglican Church as a national church, independent of papal jurisdiction.  Henry VIII, troubled by the refusal of Pope Clement VII to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, induced Parliament to enact a series of statutes that denied the pope any power or jurisdiction over the Church of England.  Henry reinstated the ancient right of the monarch, so he could exercise supremacy over the affairs of the church within his control. He supported his right by referring to precedents set by relationships of the church and state in the Eastern Roman Empire until the 9th century under Charlemagne.  Support was given particularly because no extreme changes were made in the Catholic faith, which meant the English were still accustomed to the practices.  After Henry's death, religious reforms in England continued, and in 1549 Parliament issued an act of Uniformity which enjoined the sole use of the Book of Common Prayer (Hingham 2).

A settlement of the religious controversy came when Elizabeth I succeeded Mary as queen of England in 1558.  Most of the ecclesiastical laws of Henry VIII were restored, the Act of Supremacy laid out more carefully the Monarch's power in the church.  After the installation of the first Stuart monarch, James I, as king of England, in 1603, the agitation for religious change became firmly linked with the conflict between Parliament and the Stuart's absolutism.  Another attack was made on the establishment of the Anglican Church when King James II attempted to reintroduce the practice of Roman Catholicism in England.
Since the 17th century, the Anglican Church has been greatly expanded spiritually and ecclesiastically by consecutive movements.  The most noticeable in these movements was the John Wesley's, in which he and his followers left the Church of England to become Methodists.  Low Church members, finding their devotion and church practice related to what was commonly distinctive of Protestantism, feared an extreme bias toward the High Church members and their rebirth of beliefs and practices of Roman Catholicism.  T...

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