10 Facts About Elizabethan Settlement

1.

Elizabethan Settlement was an attempt to end this religious turmoil.

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2.

Elizabethan Settlement reversed the religious innovations introduced by her father and brother.

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3.

Elizabethan Settlement kept many of her religious views private, which can make it difficult to determine what she believed.

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4.

Elizabethan Settlement disliked married clergy, held Lutheran views on Eucharistic presence, and there is evidence she preferred the more ceremonial 1549 prayer book.

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5.

Elizabethan Settlement refused, so the Queen left the chapel before the consecration.

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6.

Elizabethan Settlement argues the modifications were most likely meant to appease domestic and foreign Lutheran Protestants who opposed the memorialist view originating from reformed Zurich.

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7.

Lim write that the Elizabethan Settlement Church "was widely regarded as a Reformed church, but it was anomalous in retaining certain features of late medieval Catholicism", such as cathedrals, church choirs, a formal liturgy contained in the prayer book, traditional clerical vestments and episcopal polity.

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8.

Elizabethan Settlement kept her crucifix and candles and dropped her plans to restore roods.

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9.

Elizabethan Settlement's rise to power has been identified with a "conservative reaction" against Puritanism.

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10.

Likewise, Elizabethan Settlement Puritans abandoned the hopeless cause of presbyterianism to focus on less controversial pursuits.

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