9.1. Laudianism and the Caroline Church II
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- 9.1. Laudianism and the Caroline Church II
- 10. Preaching and Lay Activism
- Restraint of Preaching (1629):
- Sunday sermons to be turned into catechizing sessions (a means of regulating sermons against church and state)
- Feoffees for Impropriations:
- Crown disbands this group of lay activists in 1633
- The Feoffees were a group of wealthy puritan laymen that systematically helped to plant puritan ministers in parishes by purchasing rights of appointment
- Restraint of Preaching (1629):
- 11. Attempts to restore church wealth and status
- 12. Laudian views of Church of England
- A different view of the 'Protestant nation'
- the reformation of the English church was actually complete under Elizabeth, so now only threatened by puritans
- Everyone's participation in the same rites and ceremonies of the national church is the cornerstone of unity
- A different view of the 'Protestant nation'
- 13. Key characteristics of Laudianism
- Emphasis on unity, but imposition of uniformity in all aspects of the Church needed to create it
- Although Laudians believe in unity, its practices are consciously divisive
- Anti-puritanism
- belief in a popular, puritan conspiracy to undermine the Church and State
- 14. Popularity and Unpopularity of Laudianism
- Mixed attitudes?
- Potentially popular:
- embellishing local churches, support for church festivals (e.g. church ales), relaxing Sabbath regulation, mocking puritans
- Potentially unpopular
- Fear that Laudianism encouraging Catholicism via the backdoor
- e.g. church decorations, railings in altars
- extensive intervention in localities
- emphasis on status of clergy (and bishops)
- puritans lament failure to maintain attacks on idolatry, and by lack of emphasis on preaching
- Fear that Laudianism encouraging Catholicism via the backdoor
- 15. Reactions to Laudianism by 1640
- Moderate puritans
- previously kept in church under James I, increasingly radicalised
- Non-puritans
- associate Laudianism with unpopular and more authoritarian policies of Charles I
- Moderate puritans
- 10. Preaching and Lay Activism
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