Church of England

Examples of Church of England in the following topics:

• The Revolution and Churches

  • The American Revolution inflicted deeper wounds on the Church of England in America than on any other denomination.
  • As a result, Church of England priests swore allegiance to the British crown at their ordination.
  • In 1776, these enemies were American soldiers, as well as friends and neighbors of American parishioners of the Church of England.
  • Patriotic American members of the Church of England, loathing to discard so fundamental a component of their faith as The Book of Common Prayer, revised it to conform to the political realities of the time.
  • The Anglican Communion was created, allowing a separated Episcopal Church of the United States that would still be in communion with the Church of England.

• Puritanism

  • Within the Church of England, those who wanted to remove traces of pre-Reformation Catholicism came to be called "Puritans".
  • At the end of Elizabeth's reign, the Church of England was firmly in place, but within it were the seeds of future conflict.
  • King James I of England made some efforts to reconcile the Puritan clergy in England, who had been alienated by the conservatism blocking reform in the Church of England.
  • The first Puritans of New England disapproved of Christmas celebrations, as did some other Protestant churches of the time.
  • Assess the cultural influence of Puritanism and how it affected the Church of England

• The Anglican Class

  • The Church of England controlled Virginian society and government during the colonial era.
  • The Church of England was legally established; the bishop of London made it a favorite missionary target and sent in 22 clergyman by 1624.
  • When the elected assembly, the House of Burgesses, was established in 1619, it enacted religious laws that made Virginia a bastion of Anglicanism.
  • However, the stress on private devotion weakened the need for a bishop or a large institutional church of the sort Blair wanted.
  • Baptists, German Lutherans, and Presbyterians funded their own ministers and favored disestablishment of the Anglican Church.

• The Anglican Church

  • Beginning with Henry VIII in the 16th century, the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and Catholic Church.
  • The English Reformation was a series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
  • The Act in Restraint of Appeals, drafted by Cromwell, declared that clergy recognise Henry as the "sole protector and Supreme Head of the Church and clergy of England."
  • The prayer book of 1552 remains the foundation of the Church of England's services.
  • Two groups were excluded in Elizabeth's Church of England.

• Colonies in Crisis

  • The events of the Glorious Revolution in England had tumultuous repercussions for British colonies in America.
  • They arrested dominion officials as a protest against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England.
  • Andros, commissioned governor of New England in 1686, had earned the enmity of the local populace by enforcing the restrictive Navigation Acts, denying the validity of existing land titles, restricting town meetings, and appointing unpopular regular officers to lead colonial militia, among other actions that were part of an attempt to bring the colonies under the closer control of the crown.
  • Furthermore, he had infuriated Puritans in Boston by promoting the Church of England, which was disliked by many Nonconformist New England colonists.
  • Members of the Church of England, believed by Puritans to sympathize with the administration of the dominion, were also taken into custody by the rebels.

• Plymouth

  • In England, reform-minded men and women had been calling for greater changes to the English national church since the 1580s.
  • These reformers, who followed the teachings of John Calvin and other Protestant reformers, were called Puritans because of their insistence on “purifying” the Church of England of what they believed to be un-scriptural, especially Catholic elements that lingered in its institutions and practices.
  • Unwilling to conform to the Church of England, many Puritans sought refuge in the New World.
  • Yet those who emigrated to the Americas were not united; some called for a complete break with the Church of England, while others remained committed to reforming the national church.
  • Unlike other Puritans, they insisted on a complete separation from the Church of England and had first migrated to the Dutch Republic seeking religious freedom.

• Religion in Early New England

  • These people, called separatists, wanted to create their own church separate from the Church of England.
  • Those who wanted to purify the Church of England were known as Puritans.
  • The first Puritans of New England disapproved of Christmas celebrations, as did some other Protestant churches of the time.
  • John Wesley was a cleric for the Church of England, and he and his brother led groups of Christians throughout England, Ireland, and Scotland.
  • Methodism started out as a society and follower of the Church of England but was not a church itself.

• The Ecclesia

  • A slight modification of the church type is that of ecclesia.
  • Ecclesias include the above characteristics of churches, but they are generally less successful at garnering absolute adherence among all of the members of the society.
  • The state churches of some European nations would fit this type.
  • The Anglican Church of England, for example, is a state church that does not have the adherence of all English citizens.
  • The Catholic Church applies the word "Church" only to Christian communities that, in the view of the Catholic Church, "have true sacraments in light of Apostolic succession" and that possess a priesthood and the Eucharist.

• Norman Architecture

  • Indeed, England was influential in the development of Romanesque architecture and has the largest number of surviving examples.
  • The Church of Saint-Pierre is another prime example of Norman architecture.
  • Following the Norman invasion of England, Normans rapidly constructed more motte-and-bailey castles, and in a burst of building activity, they built churches, abbeys, and more elaborate fortifications such as Norman stone keeps.
  • The Church of St.
  • Discuss the influence of Normandy and Norman architecture in France and England

• Mill Towns and Company Towns

  • The town, entirely company-owned, provided housing, markets, a library, churches, and entertainment for the 6,000 company employees and an equal number of dependents.
  • In 1898 the Illinois Supreme Court required Pullman to dissolve their ownership of the town.
  • At their peak there were more than 2,500 company towns, housing 3% of the US population.
  • Beginning with technological information smuggled out of England by Francis Cabot Lowell, large mills were established in New England in the early- to mid-19th century.
  • "In the nineteenth century, saws and axes made in New England cleared the forests of Ohio; New England ploughs broke the prairie sod, New England scales weighed wheat and meat in Texas; New England serge clothed businessmen in San Francisco; New England cutlery skinned hides to be tanned in Milwaukee and sliced apples to be dried in Missouri; New England whale oil lit lamps across the continent; New England blankets warmed children by night and New England textbooks preached at them by day; New England guns armed the troops; and New England dies, lathes, looms, forges, presses and screwdrivers outfitted factories far and wide. " - Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1969