During the reign of Henry VIII the English Catholic Church separated from Rome and Henry was made Head of the Catholic Church which was renamed the Church of England. This was because Henry needed a divorce from his wife who could not give him a male heir, and the Pope would not annul the marriages.
After Henry's death the church was engilfed in conflict as to the nature of the new church, many wanted to reform the church away from Catholicism and adopt the new Protestant ideas coming from within England and Europe. The Puritans wanted a complete removal of all traces of Rome as an example.
During the reign of Elizabeth I a compromise was reached where the Church of England retained some Catholic practices and dopted some Protestant reforming ideas.
The new faith evolved as the Anglican faith which remains to this day a unique mix of both Catholic and Protestant.
The Puritans had sought to reform the Anglican Church. They believed that the Church of England had not gone far enough in separating itself from Roman Catholicism, and believed the church still pushed forward a lot of catholic based doctrine.
Martin Luther was a Catholic monk who sought to reform the Catholic Church.
Protestans who wanted to reform the Anglican Church were called Puritans
Protestants did not reform the Catholic Church. They (Martin Luther, Henry VIII, etc) formed their own religions. The Catholic Church then reformed itself.
The reformation movement was fueled by an attempt to reform the Catholic Church. There were a lot of false doctrines and malpractices going on in the church.
The Puritans had sought to reform the Anglican Church. They believed that the Church of England had not gone far enough in separating itself from Roman Catholicism, and believed the church still pushed forward a lot of catholic based doctrine.
The Spanish did not reform the Anglican church. The Anglican church is English and begun by Henry when he threw out the Catholic church in England.
Martin Luther was a Catholic monk who sought to reform the Catholic Church.
Protestans who wanted to reform the Anglican Church were called Puritans
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Protestants did not reform the Catholic Church. They (Martin Luther, Henry VIII, etc) formed their own religions. The Catholic Church then reformed itself.
William Tyndale did not reform the Catholic Church, he left it and was excommunicated as a heretic.
It is the protesting to the teaching of the church particularly Catholic.
During the counter-reformation, the papacy was reformed to address corruption.
The reformation movement was fueled by an attempt to reform the Catholic Church. There were a lot of false doctrines and malpractices going on in the church.
Nonseparating Puritans were included with the people that hoped to reform the Church of England. Moderate Puritans were also part of the group hoping to reform the church.
Martin Luther felt that the Catholic Church needed reform because of the bad behavior of his fellow