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To: Arkansas Boy

A great article, but I thought the Church of England
was started by Henry the 8th - so he could divorce his wife.


6 posted on 11/26/2004 7:35:10 PM PST by beethovenfan
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To: beethovenfan

You're right. Henry VIII broke from the Holy See in Rome for the reasons you give. He was furious with the Pope who would not allow him to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Bolyn. He simply created the Church of England, so that he could do as he pleased. What the writer probably meant by King James is that James authorized the King James version of the Bible, which from that point forward became the standard version.


12 posted on 11/26/2004 7:45:08 PM PST by CHARLITE
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To: beethovenfan
A great article, but I thought the Church of England was started by Henry the 8th - so he could divorce his wife.

It was. Theology was ever the handmaiden of politics.

148 posted on 01/18/2006 8:12:29 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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