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What was an issue/problem either Henry 8th, John Calvin, St Teresa of Avila, Zwingli or John Knox had to face?

Also, what were the issues of the Reformation? Thanks

2007-03-17 17:05:18 · 1 answers · asked by ♥ уσυ вєℓσηg ωιтн мє ♥ 7 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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In 1561, Queen Mary was prepared to marry a man named Don Carlos. John Knox , a religious leader who protested the Catholic Church, spoke out about it and denounced the marriage. Mary moved against Knox by having him arrested and put on trial after he summoned a "convocation of the brethren", in terms that could be interpreted as incitement to violence, to free two Calvinists who had threatened one of the royal priests. He was charged with conspiracy "to raise a tumult" against the queen, but he led his own defence and was acquitted.



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The Church was intrusive in many ways. Probably the single most effective weapon the Reformers had was popular resentment of ecclesiastical financial exactions and of the bewildering forest of laws that accompanied them. (Part of the money collected from the preaching of the indulgences in Germany secretly went to a powerful archbishop, to pay for an exemption from the rule prohibiting a bishop from holding more than one see at a time.) The higher clergy possessed ostentatious power and wealth, and many orthodox reformers at the time pointed out that it was hard to see the apostolic fishermen in the mighty, often scandalously worldly, prince-bishops. This resentment, like the other reforming impulses of the time, was double-edged, inspiring both genuine reform (Cardinal Ximenz de Cisneros) and naked greed (Henry VIII's seizure of the monasteries).


Hope this helps ..yours truly , Shitstainz

2007-03-18 06:07:10 · answer #1 · answered by shitstainz 6 · 1 0

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