The English Reformation How It Came About And Why We Sholud Uphold It
The English Reformation How It Came About And Why We Sholud Uphold It
Cunningham Geikie
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It had been the view of the New Learning, and had come to be that of a large party in the nation, that the true solution of the difficulties in which the kmg found himself, was, that he should assume the supremacy over the Church in England which had hitherto been held by the Pope. Except by Wolsey and Warham, and perhaps a few others, it was thought possible for the National Church thus to separate itself from the unity of the Church Universal, and at the same time to remain '' Catholic, " wit...h no innovation or change of doctrine. It was fancied that faith in the Romanist system of priest and sacrament could still be maintained apart from submission to the Chair of St. Peter ; the clergy ministering as the direct servants of the State, and responsible to it alone. This was the English theory, handed down from William Rufus, the second Henry, and the Edwards, A. D. 1531] England declared Free from Rome. 175 for it lay at the root of the struggle against Papal Supremacy that had marked reign after reign.
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