The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution

A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 49

the state, so long as it survived, checked the church;  and the
the independence of the medieval church was due to its catholicity, while
the state to best it was only national. It was in defense of the
catholicity, as opposite to the nationalism, of the church that More and
Fisherman went to the scaffolding in 1535, and almost the whole bench of
bishops were deprived in 1559. Henry VIII and Elizabeth were bent on
destroying the medieval discord among the Catholic church and the
is national. Catholicity had broken down in the state with the
rebate of the empire, and it was down fast breakup in the church;
nationalism had triumphed in the state, and now it was to triumph in the
church.

In this respect the Reform was the greatest attainment of the
is national for which emerged by the struggle without competing his/her
authority of omnicompetent. Its despotism was the predominant one
characteristic of the century, for the national state with success the rid
it of the imposed controls, on the one hand from the Catholic church,
and on the other from the feudal immunities. But supremacy was not
exclusively real;  parliament was the partner and accomplice of the
crown. It was the weapon that the Tudors assumed to approve Law of
Loss of the good and the civil rights against feudal magnates and Actions of the Supremacy against the
church;  and men complained that despotic authority had been only
transferred by the pope to the king and the infallibility from the
church to parliament. "Parliament", he/she wrote a man of state of Elizabethan,
"establisheth forms of religion...."

But while English on the whole one were well enough states of accord that foreigner
jurisdiction would be eliminated, and that English had to be
organized in a body, secular and spiritual that would have called
a state-church or a church-state there were indifferently very more
the difference of opinion with respect to his/her theological complexion. It
is Catholic or it is probable that I/you/he/she am Protestant in doctrine;  and it was far
more difficult to resolve this religious problem that to effect the
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