To: ken5050
"I am not by any stretch of the imagination, or knowledge, a religious historian, but I venture to post the following one pargraph history, and I hope and trust my fellow Freepers on this ping list will feel free to opine, edit, correct any errors, and revise...
The Anglican Communion, born of the Church of England, which was formed when Henry VIII wanted to marry Anne Boleyn, denied permission to do so by the Pope, he split the Church off from Rome"...
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You need to spend some time in a few history books before you make such blanket statements.
The winds of change were blowing, it is likely some sort of break from Rome would have happened with or without Henry's problems. Actually, Anglicanism as we know it, was not cemented until Elizabeth I came along.
You need to read the 39 articles (hint -- they are not about Henry's divorce). You need to read about the many English reformers, clerics and scholars who gave their life for the cause of the English Reformation.
4 posted on
03/17/2005 8:25:16 PM PST by
hiho hiho
To: hiho hiho
>>You need to read the 39 articles (hint -- they are not about Henry's divorce). You need to read about the many English reformers, clerics and scholars who gave their life for the cause of the English Reformation.<< I once told a 30+year Episcopalian brother that he needed to refer to the 39 Articles and he said, "The 39 what?"
5 posted on
03/18/2005 11:23:58 AM PST by
torqemada
("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!")
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