How Different was English Christianity in the reign of...

This report will compare and contrast how different English Christianity was in the reign of Elizabeth I to the childhood of Roger Martyn. Roger Martyn was a local gentleman who gave a detailed account of his childhood and how Christianity was greatly practiced. Through various time periods of English history, English Christianity differed tremendously. The basic beliefs of Christianity are that Jesus is both fully divine and fully human; humankind is inherently sinful, signifying estrangement from God as well as moral wrongdoing. Jesus, the sinless Son of God is the essential means of reconciliation between God and humankind, Jesus’ teachings, recorded in the New Testament, have unique spiritual and moral authority. Following Jesus’†¦show more content†¦Through Roger Martyns childhood, the religious acceptance of that time was that of Catholics. This was at a time of when King Henry viii was at loggerheads with the papacy over the popes refusal to annul his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon preventing him from marrying Anne Boleyn. Through this period the atmosphere of where Roger Martyns would have prayed was very visual as described by him ‘...there was a goodly mount made of a great tree and setup to the foot of the window there, carved very artificially...’ . there is much detail in Roger Martyns account of the place which he worshipped in Roger Martyns account of the church in which he worshipped proved to have more visual centre pieces and ‘...in the tabernacle at the south end, there was a fair image of our blessed lady [mary, the mother of jesus], having the afflicted body of her dear son, as he was taken down, off the cross, laying along in her lap, the tears, as it were, running down pitifully upon her beautiful cheeks, as it seemed, beduing the said sweet body of her son, and therefore named the image of our lady of pitty...’ By the 1530’s Protestantism grew through the work of Thomas Cranmer who was the archbishop of Canterbury. There were many religious changes when King Henry viii passed away in 1547.this gave way for radical modifications in relation to Christianity and the way in which it was