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"If God is sovereign, then his lordship must extend over all of life, and it cannot be restricted to the walls of the church or within the Christian orbit." Abraham Kuyper Common Grace 1.1.

Saturday 19 May 2018

A history of British Calvinism - knowledge organiser part 1

PERIOD MONARCH DATE KEY EVENT DESCRIPTION KEY CALVINISTS (BY DEATH DATE)
Starting Henry VIII (1509-1547) 1517 Luther nails his 95 theses to Wittenburg door
  1520 Henry VIII appointed defender of the faith by Pope Leo X
  1524 William Tyndale flees to Germany
  1525 Tyndale's Translation of the New Testament
  1528 First Sottish martyr, Patrick Hamilton, burned at stake Patrick Hamilton (1504-1528)
  1529 Term 'Protestant' first used at Diet of Speyer
  1531 Zwingli dies at Battle of Kappel
  1533 Thomas Cranmer ABp of Canterbury
  1534 Act of Supremacy Severed ties with Rome. Church of England established
  1535 Coverdale's translation of the Bible
  1536 Calvin's Institues first published
  1536 Dissolution of the monastries begins
  1537 Thomas Cromwell insists that every parish church obtain an English Bible
  1539 Parliament passes the Six Articles Move back to Catholicism - icluding endorsement of transubstantiaition
  1546 George Wishart martyred George Wishart (1513-1546)
  1546 Luther dies
  1547 Six Articles repealed
  Edward VI (1547-1553) 1547 Stranger churches initiated
  1549 Cranmer's 1st edn of Prayer Book published
  1549 Act of Uniformty Only Book of Common Prayer could be used
  1549 Great Western rebellion
  1552 2nd edn of Prayer Book published - more Reformed in doctrine

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