English Reformations

Session 1: The Church on the Eve of the Reformation 10th November 2022, 7pm (on Zoom)

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Learning outcomes:

In this session we will explore:

• the character of late medieval English religion;

• the intellectual and cultural background to Reformation in Europe;

• how reforming movements were not a new development in the sixteenth century.

Session 2: The Henrician Church 17th November 2022, 7pm (on Zoom)

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Learning outcomes:

In this session we will explore:

• The break with Rome, the Royal Supremacy;

• The dissolution of the monasteries

• The theological character of Henry VIII’s church. 

• the English story in the context of emerging Reformations in continental Europe.

Session 3: Reformation and Counter-Reformation? Edward VI and Mary Tudor 24th November 2022, 7pm (on Zoom)

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Learning outcomes:

In this session we will explore:

• The nature of Edward’s Reformation;

• the introduction of the English Prayer Books.

• The Marian Church and the re-introduction of Catholicism;

• The persecution of Catholics and Protestants and the nature of exile.

Session 4: The Elizabethan Settlement 8th December 2022, 7pm (on Zoom)

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Learning outcomes:

In this session we will explore:

• The 1559 Prayer Book;

• the 1563 Articles of Religion.

• Catholics, Puritans, and further reform.

Session 5: The Early Stuart Church 15th December 2022, 7pm (on Zoom)

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Learning Outcomes:

In this session we will explore:

• The Jacobean and Caroline churches;

• “Laudianism” and reimagining the Reformation;

• the journey towards Civil War

• The ‘invention’ of Anglicanism

The Rev’d Dr Hannah Cleugh is the vicar of St Peter’s, Monkseaton, in the Diocese of Newcastle. Prior to this role, Hannah has served as Senior Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely and a minor canon of Ely Cathedral, and as the Chaplain and Solway Fellow at University College, University of Durham.