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How were the laity an obstacle to the restoration of the Church?

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  • clear that many wanted the doctrine of the 6 Articles but this was very different to the religious structure of 1533
  • whole generation had grown up with a very different experience from those who worshipped Church of wider Christendom and with Pope as spiritual leader
2
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How was the integration of Protestant beliefs an obstacle to the restoration of the Church?

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  • Protestantism encouraged discussion and could be supported with a few prayer books and a Bible
  • not as straightforward to implement the Church of even 6 years earlier
3
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How was the destruction of rituals and beauty an obstacle to the restoration of the Church?

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  • rood screens, vestments, statutes, patterns, water stoops, Easter sepulchre destroyed by Edwardian regime
  • dissolution of monasteries
  • even if the beliefs still existed, where were the material requirements going to come from?
4
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How was the destruction of Catholic beliefs an obstacle to the restoration of the Church?

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  • Edwardian regime taught laity to question significance of prayers for dead and purgatory
5
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Was there a lot of opposition to the changes from the laity?

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  • no
  • suggestion that many might have welcome return to old religion/ at least old practises
  • may have embraced belief that the monarch could decide the faith (helped laity accept most religious changes)
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Rather than seeing Mary’s aim as returning the Church to the pre-1533 practises, what has Duffy suggested?

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  • that Mary wished to incorporate some aspects of Henrician/ Edwardian reform
  • eg. ritual calendar was restored in 1554 - used in Henry’s Church after a number of Holy days had been removed
7
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Although Cardinal Pole had ‘absolved England of its sins’ - this only applied to those willing to embrace Catholicism. What happened to bishops who did not?

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  • deprived of their sees and replaced with committed Catholics
  • fled abroad
  • 800 clergy deprived