But that’s not the only reason religion caused the civil war, King Charles believed in the divine right. It was when the king/queen believes that god put them on the throne. So Charles took all the power because of this and Parliament didn’t want to go with his decision which contributes to the civil war. Also he made Scottish churches uses English prayer books which caused riots and England went to battle with Scotland. England lost.
This can be further broken down into two components. The first problem of church politics was the legitimacy of the Popes. This would lead to the second problem which was the refusal of the Avignon and Roman Popes to compromise with each other as they thought of themselves as being the legitimate Pope. The problem of legitimacy must now be examined. In 1378, the College of Cardinals, under pressure from an unruly Roman mob outside the Conclave elected Urban VI as Pope.1 However, after Urban’s harsh treatment of the Cardinals alienated them, they proceeded to 1 D. Hay, Europe In The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Centuries, London, 1989, p. 301. declare Urban’s election invalid and elect Clement VII as Pope.2 This created a situation without precedent as there was no clear
It was The Catholic Church and its leader was The Pope who lived in Rome. By 1600 there was TWO Christian Churches - Roman Catholic and Protestant. He made himself head of the church. Henry also made himself head of the English Church because the monasteries were worth a lot of money; the Pope took a lot of English taxes and the church owned about a quarter of English land. Henry had spent a lot of money on wars in Europe, expensive clothes and food so he wanted to make up the loss by being head of the church.
They had used several immoral practices such as simony, the buying and selling of church offices. And as author Dan Petty put it, “pluralism (holding multiple offices simultaneously) and absenteeism (failure to reside in the parish where they were supposed to minister),”(Petty). Several situations in which the church displayed its power included taxations and practicing celibacy (Petty). Due to the church’s immense power, many expressed fear and became discouraged to contest its actions. One of the main leaders in the act to resist the Roman Catholic Church’s authority and change the ideas of Christianity in the Protestant Reformation was Martin Luther.
King Henry the VIII was very much against the Pope and did not see eye to eye with him. He thought the Pope at the time of his reign was just a Bishop of Rome. King Henry the VIII wanted even the highest priest which was the Pope to be some cookie cutter molded person whom he could overcome by just using his authority and power as the King. There were
They rebelled and tried to attack. Charles was partly to blame for religious reasons like the one above, and some other reasons as well. He made William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury and he tried to make England a Catholic country. Also, he married a woman named Henrietta Maria. She was a Catholic, so naturally Parliament were concerned that England was going to return to Catholicism.
However, many of these aristocrats died on battle, without leaving a heir, which gave all their lands to the king, this greatly increased the kings power. Islam affected Europe’s economy greatly. Before the Crusades, Europe’s technology was simple. At the time, Islamic groups had some of the most advanced technology around. Europeans used many of these technologies from their enemies, many of these increased trade and helped their economy grow.
The Medici family had a dream in reality with art, money, and power. The Medici family had a passion for art. But that was not the only thing they also sponsored architects. In making of statues, beautiful palaces, amazing buildings, and the most graceful homes that you could ever live in ( If you were the King). They also created opportunities for artists with talent.
He further stressed unity of the Church as the way to promote peace and asked the people to abandon their “…unacceptable ideological commitments…”for the faith (Hoyt, 1983). At this point, the crowd became impatient because they above all wanted to hear prayers for the people that had been murdered on the very spot that they were gathered, but none was offered. Finally, his visit according to Newpower (Newpower, 1983), there was even more tension between church and state and amongst Catholics.
King Henry VIII of England was at first opposed to Luther’s ideas, but when he broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s, he supported Protestantism. When he died and his daughter Mary took over the throne in 1553, she persecuted many Protestants trying to restore England to Catholicism because she was a devout Catholic, (John H. Ratliff, page 4). In 1558 Elizabeth I succeeded Mary restoring order to England. Elizabeth being a Protestant queen only intensified problems with Spain. This lead to problems between Catholic Spain and