The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England,1400-1580

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No take on the past is ever definitive, no historian either has or ought to have the last word: truth, that elusive thing, is the daughter of time. However, since September 11, 2001, and the turn of our attention to world-changing “fundamentalism” among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, there has been a striking reversal.

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England

Erastus was a central player in the conversion of the Electoral Palatinate to Reformed Christianity in the early 1560s and a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism. In the early 1980s, three unrelated events converged to turn my attention decisively to the late Middle Ages and the Reformation. The Candlemas procession and ceremonies, enacting the journey up to Jerusalem and Mary’s offering in the Temple there, were ideally suited to such an understanding of the working of liturgy, and this was certainly an element in their popularity with lay people. In this shift, or reversal for conservatives, it remains agreed that secularization is a product of Christianity; the point of difference is how we evaluate it. He is what lifts us out of our mundane sinful lives, and conducts our attention to what is changeless, pure, and in every sense, higher.Much of our conversation, which went on through Easter, was about “art,” about “religion,” and about “art and religion. Upon its publication, the book was hailed by many as original and persuasive account of English Catholicism in the Late Middle Ages. The Golden Legend has a story of a devout woman who, unable to attend the Candlemas celebrations at her local church, was granted a dream vision of a heavenly celebration of the Candlemas liturgy, in which Christ was the priest, assisted by the deacon saints Laurence and Vincent, while a company of virgins sang the Candlemas antiphons. This tradition, embodied in such works as the Meditationes Vitae Christi, stressed the spiritual value of vivid mental imagining of the events of the life of Christ, especially his Passion, to “make hym-selfe present in his thoghte as if he sawe fully with his bodyly eghe all the thyngys that be-fell abowte the crosse and the glorious passione of our Lorde Ihesu”. But it came to be applied to the liturgy itself, and to be seen as the ideal way of participating in the Church’s worship.

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Yet they did not separate their ethics and theology by developing a separate history of nonviolence. Eamonn Duffy alludes to this ceremony in the title of his book The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580, a history of popular religion in pre- Reformation England. The first panel explores objects of restoration, from the discovery of 'lost objects' of the past that served as new subjects for experimentation, to drawing and repainting of sculpture, both ancient and contemporary, as acts of reinterpretation.

Whatever the Protestant movement was elsewhere, in England, at least, it was largely imposed from the top. Many Catholics have at least heard of the English King Henry VIII and the Anglican Church, He then tells the story of the destruction of that Church - the stripping of the altars - from Henry VIII's break with the papacy until the Elizabethan settlement. Beza’s short inaugural address provides an important window into the core principles of Christian higher education through the ages.

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional book by Eamon Duffy The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional book by Eamon Duffy

For all its bulk, The Stripping of the Altars is a polemic, written to contest the account of the English Reformation canonised in a long interpretative tradition that descended from the Elizabethan Protestant martyrologist John Foxe via the Victorian historian and celebrant of England’s Imperial destiny, James Anthony Froude, and which was still current in the 1980s, thanks mainly to the work and reputation of Professor Geoffrey Dickens whose textbook, The English Reformation, dominated school and university study of the subject. This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. After removing the ciborium from the high altar to the altar of repose, the priest, accompanied by the other ministers, went to the sacristy, where he took off his white Mass vestments and donned a violet stole. I will demonstrate that munus triplex functioned as a significant polemical device to champion the centrality of the Word of God, to substantiate the emergence of the pastoral office (while supplanting the Roman Catholic Priesthood), to undermine monarchical systems of government and the papacy, and, in addition, this doctrine is later employed as evidence for anti-judaism.

When Paul wished all prophecy to be made to accord with the analogy of faith [Rom 12:6] he set forth a very clear rule to test all interpretation of Scripture.