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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

Kolesar

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2. In David Starkey's account, the English Protestants lamented a church...

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Sun Feb 26, 2017, 12:20 PM

Feb 2017

...that still looked like the Catholic church.

Starkey wrote this excellent series that I watched on Netflix. The library had a copy also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_(TV_series)

I rather resent that my grade school history textbooks taught that it was necessary for Protestantism to replace the woeful Catholicism. Hell of a thing to say to a roomful of Italian and Polish Catholic kids. That lesson nudged me into apostasy.

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Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England by Eamon Duffy review [View all] rug Feb 2017 OP

Added to my list of books to read! Looks fascinating! Docreed2003 Feb 2017 #1

In David Starkey's account, the English Protestants lamented a church... Kolesar Feb 2017 #2

There was a lot of tension between High Church and Low Church Anglicans. rug Feb 2017 #3

Much of our culture derived from sorting out that divide. Kolesar Feb 2017 #4

No doubt that era has cast a very long shadow. rug Feb 2017 #5