"P.N." <pip160@hotmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:bsc5sj$bspb2$1@ID-78557.news.uni-berlin.de...
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> Jamen som kristen burde du da vide den slags kære Jørgen. Den Anglicanske
> kirke er den engelske folkekirke. Kirken er ikke som den danske rent
> luthersk, men indholder en højrefløj der ligger tæt på den katolske kirke,
> fra tid til anden hopper smådele af kirken af og melder sig ind i den
> katolske.
Ja, så vidt jeg forstår opstod den Engelske kirke i 1534, som et brud med
den katolske, fordi paven nægtede Henry D7 en annullering (skilsmisse?) med
Katarina af Aragon. I første omgang var det mere et politisk brud, det
doktrinære kom senere.
During the Middle Ages the church in England was affected by the same
clashes that bedevilled the relationship between church and state elsewhere
in Europe. A modus vivendi was finally achieved in the matter of
investiture, but quarrels over the taxes demanded by Rome and appeals going
from English courts to Rome were not resolved until Henry VIII broke the
union of the English church with Rome. This action, which created the Church
of England, was occasioned by the pope's refusal to grant Henry's request
for an annulment of his marriage to Katharine of AragOn. The Act of
Supremacy (1534) acknowledged the king as "the only supreme head on earth of
the Church of England." Thus the Reformation in England under Henry was at
first a matter of policy, not doctrine.
The theology of the new national church as shown in the Six Articles (1539)
and the King's Book (1543) was largely unchanged, although some Lutheran
influence may be detected. Henry authorized the Great Bible (1539), a
revision of the English translations of William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale,
and some slight alterations in service. The monasteries were suppressed,
chiefly at the hands of Thomas Cromwell. Under Edward VI changes came
rapidly, and Protestantism gained ground. The first and second Book of
Common Prayer, produced by Thomas Cranmer, were adopted in 1549 and 1552,
respectively, and a statement of doctrine, the Forty-two Articles, was drawn
up.
Under Mary I all the measures that had separated the Church of England from
Rome were reversed; the Roman ritual was brought back, and the nation was
received again into the communion of Rome. Elizabeth I restored
independence. The Elizabethan Settlement steered the English church upon a
middle course between Roman Catholicism and Calvinism. The prayer book of
1552 was restored, and the Forty-two Articles, revised toward a more
Catholic position and reduced to Thirty-nine, were adopted as a doctrinal
standard. The national church maintained the historical episcopate and
retained its continuity with the early church of Britain and much of the
ritualism sanctioned by the older rubrics. By the Act of Supremacy (1559)
ecclesiastical jurisdiction was restored to the crown to be exercised by a
court of high commission. The classical statement of the peculiar Anglican
position was made by Richard Hooker.
Under James I the steadily rising tide of Puritanism made necessary the
Hampton Court Conference (1604). At that conference, James gave his decision
for the existing doctrine. The great achievement of the conference was the
King James, or Authorized, Version of the English Bible (1611).
(AllRefer)
mvh jørgen.