wing for a broad interpretation that allowed both consubstantiation and transubstantiation. It is in this paradox of ambiguity allowing for relative freedom of worship and specific uniformity concerning preaching that Elizabeth was able to pull Anglicanism together under one common liturgy with some placating flexibility.
Although many criticized the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity as theologically questionable, Elizabeth’s parliament was able to pass both, which proved effective in bringing relative stability to England. After decades of religious and political turmoil, Elizabeth managed to execute policies both domestic and abroad which gave England the solidity of a strong monarch amongst imminent threats from Europe and within the country. In the end, Elizabeth needed to enact Protestant reforms not for the sake of her people’s spirituality, but for the sake of her own legitimacy as queen.
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. Booth, Ted W., 2014, “Elizabeth and Pope Paul IV: reticence and Reformation,” Church History And Religious Culture (Online) 94, no. 3: 317.
. Ibid., 319.
. Ibid., 321-322.
. Ibid., 319.
. Ibid., 333.
. Ibid., 323.
. Ibid., 323.
. Ibid., 329.
. Hughes, Phillip, The Reformation in England, 5th ed. Vol. 3, (New York: Macmillan, 1963), 8.
. Ibid., 8.
. Ibid., 10.
. Booth, 331.
. Fincham, Kenneth, and Peter Lake, eds. Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England, (Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom, The Boydell Press, 2006), 44.
. Ibid., 52-53.
. Ibid., 52-53.
. Kirby, 364.
. Fincham, 54.
. Ibid., 56.
. Kirby, 356.
. Fincham, 30.
. Ibid., 31.
. Ibid., 32.
. Cressy, David and Lori Anne Ferrell, Religion and Society in Early Modern England, (New York: Routledge, 1996), 43-44.
. Ibid., 40.
. Ibid., 48-56.
. Hughes, 32.
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