Despite the Second Henrican Injunctions of 1538, which required an English Bible in every church, in 1543 Henry prohibited common folk from reading the Bible in English. Consequently, only the elite of society had the privilege.
I never liked the English Reformation. It was from the top down caused by the king's desire to divorce a wife as opposed to Biblical teaching and the gospel. They retained many of the errors of Catholic ecclesiology, except for allowing their priests to marry. They didn't even eradicate a Catholic presence like was done in the other Protestant ruled countries. Overall, I think the formal Anglican church won out politically, but as we see today it has been so tied to the English state and that has caused a variety of other problems. It also motivated splinter groups I think. Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists, etc came out of the Anglican church as they tried to skew Biblical interpretation to the benefit of the government.
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I never liked the English Reformation. It was from the top down caused by the king's desire to divorce a wife as opposed to Biblical teaching and the gospel. They retained many of the errors of Catholic ecclesiology, except for allowing their priests to marry. They didn't even eradicate a Catholic presence like was done in the other Protestant ruled countries. Overall, I think the formal Anglican church won out politically, but as we see today it has been so tied to the English state and that has caused a variety of other problems. It also motivated splinter groups I think. Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists, etc came out of the Anglican church as they tried to skew Biblical interpretation to the benefit of the government.
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