Religious Challenges
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- Religious Challenges
- The Puritan Challenge
- Puritan= radical protestants
- wanted church without bishop & priest without vestments
- wanted a simpler style of worship
- crucifixes( religious idols)= wrong
- many were anti-catholic
- challenge
- crucifix
- Elizabeth wanted it to please the catholics
- Puritans oppose this (threatened to resign as bishops)= Elizabeth backed down
- Elizabeth wanted it to please the catholics
- Vestments
- Elizabeth wanted special clothing for clergy
- Puritans resisted (clergy should wear simple clothing)
- 37 Puritans resigned & refused to attend church
- crucifix
- requests were denied= Puritan support limited
- The Catholic challenge
- Abroad
- Elizabeth backed French Protestants in religious war against France
- Elizabeth excommunicated by pope
- Dutch rebels came to England angering Catholic Spain
- Pope ready to end Protestantism in England (counter reformation)
- England seized Genoese loan (sheltered English ports)
- Spain had secure hold on Netherlands= fear of invasion
- Mary was alternative monarch to Spain for England= plots
- At Home
- counter reformation to reverse spread of protestantism
- catholic hostility
- Pope instructed English Catholics to not attend Church of England services
- Revolt of the Northern Earls
- 1/3 of nobility & gentry practice catholic secretly
- Revolt of the Northern Earls
- 1/3 of nobility & gentry practice catholic secretly
- Pope instructed English Catholics to not attend Church of England services
- catholic hostility
- most of nobility, gentry and the North practice Catholicism
- North were traditional, powerful and influential= threat
- counter reformation to reverse spread of protestantism
- Abroad
- The Puritan Challenge
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