STUARTS: Charles I Religion

Arminians

Charles favoured them
Outsiders to the court believed they were in control of the king
Charles believed his difficulties with parliament were an attempt by the Puritans to attack the Kings power
Arminian Sibthorpe was preaching in favour of forced loans saying its God's Will
York Conference 1626- tried to heal divisions between arminians and Puritans
- Earl of Warwick (Puritan) requested for Buckingham to chair a theological debate at his home
- focus was on the anti calvinist writings of Montagu
- warwick wanted Charles to move away from people like Montagu but Buckingham instead supported the leading anti calvinist Laud
-Buckingham did this to reinforce his political relationship with Charles
- Charles didn't attend which showed that he wasn't going to stop supporting them

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Puritan Archbishop of Canterbury up until 1633
He didn't like arminians
Charles ordered Sibthorpe's sermon to be printed and published so it can be read out in all church services
legally, the licence for printing sermons was issued by him but he refused to licence Sibthorpe's sermons
Charles suspended him and replaced him with Arminian William Laud

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Seen as influencing Charles towards Catholicism and absolutism= negative political consequences

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