I'm confused, and again, as I admitted in another thread, I was not raised Christian so I may have major gaps in the details. But, doesn't the entire Church of England/Anglican Church exist because of a little lack of available divorce and remarriage options experienced by one King Henry VIII of England?
Wasn't part of the establishment of the CoE that it's members may marry, divorce and remarry as wanted. I'm not saying it may not have been frowned upon ironically puritanical society that the 1950s everywhere in Western culture. Something akin to, it's not what we've agreed to on paper, but, culturally it's still taboo, the way Muslims force women to wear burkas even though nary a mention of burkas exist in the Koran. So divorce was a hard-fought right, but anyone practicing it was still disdained?
I always thought it was strange and even more so a puritanical American attitude, that a nation that prides itself on being to Protestant, was so anti-divorce and actually still is in general. Oh, until Ronald Reagan, then it was OK to have divorced, morally loose, astrology-believing, homosexual-befriending Hollywood actors in the White House. But everyone else in society be damned then and still now. Whatever, sounds to me like in Britain the religious hypocrisy has reigned supreme.
Feel free to clear up the details for me, I do prefer to be informed and understand what's what.
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shellieeyre
8 years ago
Henry VIII was never divorced; his marriages to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were annulled. After the break with Rome Henry still considered himself - and his country - Catholic. The Six Articles of 1539 upheld the prohibition on married clergy, and it wasn't until their repeal under Edward VI in 1547 that married clergy became permissible.
European protestants such ad Martin Luther and Calvin were married; Thomas Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury) had to give up his fellowship at Jesus College Cambridge when he married; when his wife died the fellowship was reinstated. He met Margaret Osiander(?) in Nuremberg and married her in 1532, concealing the fact until the repeal of the Six Articles.
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shellieeyre
8 years ago
Henry VIII was never divorced; his marriages to Katherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves were annulled (as were those to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard). After the break with Rome Henry still considered himself - and his country - Catholic. The Six Articles of 1539 upheld the prohibition on married clergy, and it wasn't until their repeal under Edward VI in 1547 that married clergy became permissible.
European protestants such ad Martin Luther and Calvin were married; Thomas Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury) had to give up his fellowship at Jesus College Cambridge when he married; when his wife died the fellowship was reinstated. All of that was before he was ordained. He met Margaret Osiander(?) in Nuremberg and married her in 1532, concealing the fact until the repeal of the Six Articles.
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