Elizabeth's Religious Settlement.

Audio  • Season 1 • Episode 6 • Elizabeth's Religious Settlement. 

The Artwork isa Portrait of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, by anonymous Artist.

It location is  The Rijks Museum, Amsterdam.

The Music is The Volta, a couples' renaissance dance.

The Protestant exiles, who had fled Mary’s revived heresy laws and executions, were beginning to return to England and campaign for ecclesiastical reforms. 

They sought to recreate the pattern of church life recorded in Scripture without vestments and prelates such as cardinals, abbots, or bishops.

When Elizabeth became Queen, she worked with the Privy Council, intending to devise a religious settlement that would unite the country under a single Church.

The Elizabethan Religious Settlement, introduced in 1558, aimed to bridge the gap between Catholics and Protestants and address the variations in their religious services and beliefs.

It attempted to make England Protestant again, without alienating a population that had

previously supported Catholicism under her sister Mary.

Heinrich Bullinger was a Swiss reformer and theologian; he succeeded Ulrich Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster.

His publication “The Decades” was the most famous of the 150 treatises and manuscripts he wrote.