REFORMATION OF ENGLAND

Reformation of England



Reformation of England

Introduction

England - a country known for its reformist tendencies. Even in the XIV century the Bible was translated into English by John Wycliffe and his followers - Lollards - secretly continued to exist on the island and to his sermon. In 1525, William Tyndale published his translation of the New Testament, which has allowed many who wish to get acquainted with the text of the Bible . However, a crucial role in the Reformation in England had to play another person. Reformation in England may be in the full sense be called the "Reformation from above ', as it was at the head of the English king Henry VIII.

At Wittenberg, Zurich, Strasbourg and Geneva, the reform movement was led not by theologians and churchmen. It was almost the same in Scotland with John Knox. He had been ordained in 1536, and he witnessed the first stirrings of popular reform, raised after the death of King Jacques V, in 1542. He hears the preaching of George Wishart the pioneer of Calvinism in Scotland, with whom he befriends. But Calvinist preacher is condemned and tortured at the stake in 1546. The Scottish nobility, during the regency in favor of Mary Stuart, who was only a year after the death of Jacques V, called to preach the Gospel and continue the work of Wishart. Related to the nobles, he was taken prisoner by the French army and sentenced to the galleys in 1547. Pardoned the following year, he went to England where he continued his preaching, first at Berwick and Newcastle, and finally to the court of London, where he col1abore in drafting the Second Prayer Book.

Discussion

After the death of Edward VI, which was favorable to reformist, and as a result of disorders in which is inaugurated,. E reign of Catholic Mary Tudor, he takes the road of exile to France, then in Switzerland, including Zurich and Geneva. Recalled by the Scottish nobility, he returned to his homeland in 1559, for a reform along the lines of the Geneva Church: he preaches against the idolatrous worship of Roman Catholicism, leading the masses to engage in the looting of church property. He inspired the adoption by parliament of a Scottish Confession of Faith, in line Calvinist confession that prohibited Catholic worship and declares the Pope's authority abolished the Scottish people: well, Protestantism became the official religion of the country in 1560 (Kearney, 2009). Knox also attacked the Queen Mary, whereas it is impossible to govern a Catholic queen of a Protestant state: it can indeed be named head of the Church, as is done in the neighboring England. Until 1572, the year he died, he continues to harden its inspiration Calvinist theological statements, reserving all authority in ecclesiastical matters, although qu'accordant each parish the right to elect its own pastors and old (Peters, 2003). The Church of Scotland became a true Presbyterian Church, on the Geneva model (Young, 2000).

In England, the Reformation, if it met the wishes of ...