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
        • Vestments
          • Elizabeth wanted special clothing for clergy
          • Puritans resisted (clergy should wear simple clothing)
          • 37 Puritans resigned & refused to attend church
      • 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
            • 1/3 of nobility & gentry practice catholic secretly
        • most of nobility, gentry and the North practice Catholicism
        • North were traditional, powerful and influential= threat

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