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The English bishops p. 72
Recruited mainly from royal adminis-
trators 		72
Their "civilian-mindedness" 72
The architects and artificers of the new
absolutism 		74
The bishops of 1517, their previous
careers p. 		74
The Spirit of Episcopal administration 81
The parish clergy and their training 83
St. Thomas More and the complaint
about clerical ill-living 		86
CHAPTER III
CATHOLIC LIFE AND THOUGHT
Piety of the layfolk p. 90
Popular religious practices 92
Sermons 94
Their quality 95
Was the layman really instructed? 95
The popular religious literature 98
No printed Bibles p. 100
Influence of the Devotio Moderna 101
Of Nominalism 101
Evidence of the parochial visitations
in the diocese of Lincoln 		102
Starkey and clerical life 104
PART TWO: THE LAST YEARS OF CATHOLIC ENGLAND
CHAPTER I
WOLSEY AND HIS EFFECT, 1515-1529
The minister of state and all-
powerful, 1515-1529 p. 		109
Through the court of Chancery 109
Through the Star Chamber 109
In foreign affairs 110
The expensive wars 111
The diplomatic disasters 112
The financial crises p. 111
The unprecedented taxation 111
Wolsey hated everywhere, in the end 111
Wolsey as legate a latere, a tyrant 112
And corrupt 113
The political fortunes of the papacy
the true centre of his career? 		114
CHAPTER II
THE LUTHERAN VICTORIES, 1517-1529
The new heresy is, by 1529, in settled
occupation p. 		116
The pope's condemnation of it
accepted by the emperor 		117
But has no immediate effect 117
North German princes and cities take
up the heresy 		117
The theological situation p. 119
Basically, a practical problem about
salvation and sin 		119
Luther's character, intellectual forma-
tion, equipment for the task 		119
His method, as theologian 120
The kings of Sweden also p. 117
And of Denmark 118
Wherever it triumphs Church property
is confiscated, and monastic orders
dissolved 118
"Justification by only faith" p. 120
A revolutionary theory, destructive of
the best part of current religious
practice 		122
Zwingli and the still more radical
Swiss Reformation 124

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Reformation in England. Contributors: Philip Hughes - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1951. Page Number: viii.
    
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