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The Elizabethan settlement was further consolidated by the adoption of a moderately Protestant doctrinal statement called the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion. While affirming traditional Christian teaching as defined by the first four ecumenical councils , it tried to steer a middle way between Reformed and Lutheran doctrines while rejecting ...
Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-45313-5. A thorough study of the Book of Common Prayer ' s role in English social religion during the late 16th and early 17th centuries; Swift, Daniel (2013).
So by the end of the Elizabethan era, Anglican and Puritan factions were at times in deep conflict, as many of the Puritans would often satirize the Anglican church, with its rituals and bishops as being subversive of true religion and godliness. At the same time the Puritan movement had ministers and magistrates that held to either ...
The Act was part of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement in England instituted by Elizabeth I, who wanted to unify the church. Other Acts concerned with this settlement were the Act of Supremacy 1558 and the Thirty-Nine Articles .
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England ... Elizabeth managed to moderate and quell the intense religious passions of the time ...
St Paul's Cathedral, London, view as in 1540. The Convocation of 1563 was a significant gathering of English and Welsh clerics that consolidated the Elizabethan religious settlement, and brought the Thirty-Nine Articles close to their final form (which dates from 1571).
In 1559, five years before Shakespeare's birth, the Elizabethan Religious Settlement finally severed the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.In the ensuing years, extreme pressure was placed on England's Catholics to accept the practices of the Church of England, and recusancy laws made illegal any service not found in the Book of Common Prayer, including the Roman Catholic Mass. [5]
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement established the Church of England as a conservative Protestant church. During this time, the Book of Common Prayer was authorised as the church's official liturgy and the Thirty-nine Articles as a doctrinal statement. These continue to be important expressions of Anglicanism.