<Articles>A Study on the Establishment of the Anglican Church

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  • <論説>イングランド国教会成立に関する一考察

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The essential feature of the English Reformation consisted in the fact that the church in England severed herself from the rule of Rome, i. e. in the Establishment of the Anglican Church. Why did Henry VIII, who was originally loyal to the Roman Pope, dare to resort to such a revolutionary act? It is true that his divorce furnished the principal occasion for the English Reformation, but it cannot be connected directly with the Establishment of the Anglican Church. Drawing a conclusion from the historical process, we may say that, at the excellent opportunity afforded by the king's divorce question, the anticlerical and antipapal feeling prevalent in the nation, above all in the middle class, came to its fullest expression in the Reformation Parliament, and, finally, gave rise to the independence of the Church in England. In this case, however, the rôle which Thomas Cromwell enacted was of great importance, because we may justifiably conjecture that he, as a spokesman of the middle class close to the throne, transmitted the anticlerical and antipapal feeling of this class to the king and, at the same time, showed an explicit destination to which both the king and the middle class should come in the end.

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  • 史林

    史林 43 (3), 329-360, 1960-05-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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  • CRID
    1390290699825410176
  • NII Article ID
    120006818255
  • NII Book ID
    AN00119179
  • DOI
    10.14989/shirin_43_329
  • HANDLE
    2433/249488
  • ISSN
    03869369
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Article Type
    journal article
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