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A paper which considers how far England could be categorised as a Protestant country by 1547, with reference to the changes initiated by Henry VIII and the reforms and counter-reforms which took place during his reign. Bibliography lists 3 sources
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England had become a Protestant country by 1547, it is perhaps useful consider first how the term "Protestant country" ought to be defined. For example, one could assert that any
state in which the majority of the population follow a particular religious faith should therefore be defined in terms of that faith. Alternatively, one can also argue that numerical majorities
within a state are less important than the influence which a particular religious belief system has on the political structure of that country: it would therefore be correct to refer
to a nation as a "Christian country" if its domestic and international political structure and legislation was founded on Christian doctrine, irrespective of how many individuals in the populace actually
followed the Christian faith.
When considering both religious and political structures in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, it is evident that the distinction tends to be rather different: since state and
church were far more closely interlinked than is the case today, one would not find a nation state with purely secular politics and a religious population or vice versa. The
main issue with regard to English history of this period is the dichotomy between Catholic and Protestant, and the extent to which the transition from the one to the other
was prompted by religious doctrine, and how much because of political expediency.
New.advent.org (2004) makes the salient point that in terms of religious faith, before the break with Rome initiated by Henry VIII, there was
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