Anabaptist, Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, Act of Supremacy, Book of Common Prayer, John Calvin
1. Anabaptist. Many of the Anabaptists all had a belief that the Christian Church was all voluntary believers that had gone under a spiritual rebirth. Anabaptists preferred baptism to occur as an adult rather than the right at birth. Many of these people followed the older properties of Christianity and held a variation of democracy where all believers were equal.
2. Henry VII. Henry VII was a harsh ruler who did not take the response of “no” very lightly. Something the King longed for was the birth of an eventual male heir to the throne. Although he did not get what he wanted until his third marriage. The King …show more content…
Zwingli expressed his views of the Lord’s Supper like the Catholic Church’s view. He states that Christ’s presence in the sacrament is to be explained in terms of the doctrine of transubstantiation, which applies that when the priest says the words of consecration, the substance of bread and wine is transformed into the body and blood of Christ. The properties of the bread and wine, however, remain the same. Zwingli also emphasizes that this process is a propitiatory service/sacrifice (the same sacrifice that Christ offered on the cross; this process is offered to the living and dead) to Christ. One of his main arguments to this was he believed that Christ’s words “This is my body”, should be read as “This signifies my body” because he thought that the supper was a symbolic memorial to Christ in which the follower’s pledges that he a follower to Christ. Zwingli stated that the words of Christ should not be viewed in a plain, literal …show more content…
Anabaptists everywhere all shared a couple common characteristics. One being the belief that the Christian Church was an association of believers who had undergone a spiritual rebirth and then had been baptized into the Church. They believed in baptizing as an adult, not the traditional at birth. The Anabaptists made an effort to return to earlier ideas of Christianity while adhering to earlier accounts of the New Testament. Another big characteristic of Anabaptists was that they did not force everybody to believe everything the bible states, unlike the Catholic Church had to accept the truth of the bible. The Anabaptists that considered themselves “Christians” or “Saints” accepted the fact that they had to work and suffer to reach their