"revist the original biblical texts to establish a purer religion"
Basic principles of the Catholic faith
Did not challenge belief, challenged the practices
Thomas More - Utopia
Erasmus, Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon
Growth of the printing press allowed the spread of the original bible
Humanists supported this "new learning"
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Lollardy
"talking rubbish" - seen as heretics
Questioned the role of priests
Christianity shouldn't be based in the Bible
God was an individual gift - didnt need a priest to intervene e.g confession
Rejected transubstantiation
The Bible should be open to interpretation
Bible in English rather than Latin to allow everyone to have a copy
Attracted members of the nobility and gentry - "dangerous"
Majority craftsmen and merchants
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Lutherans
Based on the ideas of Martin Luther
"take the church back to its roots"
Indulgences = corrupt
Devotion to faith > good works = benefit for the soul/salvation
Faith was the gift of God to the individual
Bible Translation into a language people could understand
Branded a heretic and excommunicated by the Pope
Very small minority
None of the nobility/gentry would support them
Thomas Cramner & Thomas Cromwell influenced
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Believers in royal supremacy
Challenged the roles & relationships of the Church and the monarchy
John Wycliff, William Tyndale, Martin Luther
Pope/Church lacked the power to enforce Church laws without royal assent
Church should have a regard for state laws
Sin to oppose the Kings power
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Religious Conservatives
Protect Catholic beliefs/practices from Protestant ideas
Thomas More - stressed the importance of a strict hierarchy, all challenges to the existing hierarchy were "dangerous, greatest danger was "heretics". Needed to maintain the unity of Christendom.
Luther & Tyndales = threats
Those who preached/published ideas which rejected the Catholic Church should be forced to renounce their views or die.
Carthusians & Observant Franciscan Friars = were supporters of this
Henry VIII supported his friend, More.
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The Aragonese Faction
Faction - informal groups within the Tudor court which had a single focus/cause (interest groups)
Aragonese Faction - centered around the position of Catherine of Aragon and the protection and loyalty of the Catholic Faith.
Developed opposition to the power and influence of Cardinal Wolsey
Thomas More & Bishop Fisher = loose connection
Lord Darcy, Lord Hussey, Sir Nicholas Carew, Sir Henry Guilford
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