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Rites of Passage and the Prayer Books of 1549 and 1552

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

David M. Loades
David M. Loades*
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University College of North Wales, Bangor
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Extract

Nowhere were the doctrinal ambiguities of the English Church more evident than in its attitude to prayers for the dead. The problem had become evident well before 1549, in the policies of a king who claimed to be more Catholic than the Pope, but who not only dissolved monasteries, but also dismantled the shrines of the saints, and clearly threatened all intercessory foundations. The King’s Book of 1543, or A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen Man had struck a delicate balance.

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Part II: Death and Salvation
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Studies in Church History Subsidia , Volume 10: Prophecy and Eschatology , 1994 , pp. 205 - 215
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1994 

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References

1 STC 5168.

2 A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen Man (15+3) in Formularies of the Faith by Charles Lloyd (Oxford, 1825), pp. 213–337.

3 The opus dei, or cycle of prayer which was the main purpose of the monastic life, had a general intercessory purpose, but was not particularly connected with intercession for the dead. Gorrie, G. E., The Sermons of Hugh Latimer (Parker Society, 1844)Google Scholar.

4 Statute 37 Henry VIII, c.4; ‘An Acte for the dissolution of Colleges, Chantries, and Free Chapels’, Statutes of the Realm, 3, p. 988. Henry VIII’s will is printed in Rymer, T., Foedera, Con ventions, Literae (London, 1727—9), 15, p. 144Google Scholar.

5 The theological issues involved in these controversies about the state of departed souls are examined in Burns, Norman T, Christian Mortalismfrom Tyndale to Milton (Harvard University Press, 1972)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 This sense of community is strongly emphasized in Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars (Yale University Press, 1992), pp. 134–41Google Scholar.

7 The first and second Books of Maccabees were declared to be canonical by the Council of Trent in 1546, but the Council’s decrees were not ratified until 1563. The Protestant Churches never accepted them, and their status during this period was consequently indeterminate.

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10 Salomons Booke, 151v-152r. D. Martin Luthers Werke, 20, pp. 162–3.

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16 Ibid., pp. 147–8.

17 Ibid., p. 317.

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21 STC 16424.

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