A Nearly Infallible History Of Christianity – Nick Page

One presbyter, one vote. Mary, however, refused to toe the line. She deliberately carried on with her Catholic observance. (Not to mention her scandalous sex life.) It was a classic power struggle between the queen and the Parliament. And the queen lost. In 1567 she was forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son, James. She fled south to England, seeking the protection of her stepsister. James remained in Scotland, to be brought up by Scottish Calvinists in what was possibly the least fun childhood ever.

And he never forgot it. The reign in Spain Protestantism was often tied to nationalism. The Netherlands, for example, were actually ruled by Catholic Spain, so Lutherans, Calvinists and Anabaptists were able to ride a wave of anti-Spanish feeling. (An uprising led by William of Orange in 1566 was brutally crushed, which only added to the support for Protestantism.) France, meanwhile, was in chaos.

The king had died in a bad jousting accident. And then his successor (who doubled as the husband of Mary Queen of Scots) died after eighteen months. The next king in the queue was only nine, so control of France passed to the Italian queen mother – Catherine de Medici. Protestant aristocrats saw their chance for a coup. Reform had spread in France, albeit underground.

But now these some 1,000 congregations saw their chance. They took over Catholic churches and put armed guards on the doors to stop them being repossessed. Queen Catherine tried to broker a peace and, in 1562, she issued a decree which demanded that the Protestants should vacate the churches they had seized, but that they would be permitted to worship freely outside French cities.

It didn’t work. Riots broke out and anti-Protestant violence spread. The country descended into civil war. A peace deal was worked out which allowed Protestants their own places of worship. To seal the deal a leading Protestant nobleman married the young king’s sister in Paris in 1572. The Calvinist Admiral de Coligny, arrived in Paris for the wedding, along with thousands of other Protestants.

Then someone shot the admiral.

Unless indicated otherwise, Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Revised Standard Version. Copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and are used by permission. All rights reserved. First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Hodder & Stoughton An Hachette UK company Copyright © Nick Page, 2013 The right of Nick Page to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 444 75014 0 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 338 Euston Road London NW1 3BH www.hodderfaith.com 1kitap1.com/en ‘We have seen truth crucified and goodness buried, but we have kept going with the conviction that truth crushed to earth will rise again.’

Martin Luther King ‘Jesus came preaching the kingdom and what arrived was the church.’ Alfred Loisy ‘With great power, comes great responsibility.’ Stan Lee, Amazing Fantasy #15 1kitap1.com/en Contents Title Page Copyright Epigraph Introduction Prologue 1. Resurrection, Rome and Revelation 2. Marcion, Montanism and Monks 3. Constantine, Councils and Creeds 4. Barbarians, Byzantium and Benedict 5. Dark Ages, Dating and Divorce 6. Crusaders, Cathedrals and Cathars 7. Beguines, Bibles and Black Death 8.

Print, Protestants and Peasants 9. Calvinism, Counter-Reformation and Commonwealths 10. Revolution, Reason and Radicals 11. Mormons, Missionaries and Monkeys 12. Fundamentalism, Fascism and Females Conclusion Timeline Index Footnotes 1kitap1.com/en Introduction In AD 542 plague struck the eastern Mediterranean. A well-known Egyptian Christian called Barsanuphius wrote a letter to comfort and encourage anxious Christians.

I would call him a ‘public figure’, except that he had retired to a cave as a young monk, and nobody had set eyes on him since. But he was a great letter writer. He told his correspondents that although God loved humanity and wanted to show mercy, ‘the mass of sins committed in the world stands in his way’.

But, he continued, there were three men he could think of who were perfect before God, and who had the power ‘to bind and loose, to remit our faults or to retain them’. Those men were John, at Rome, Elias at Corinth and another – whose name he didn’t seem to recall – in the province of Jerusalem. Eh? Surely some mistake? Not the pope? Not the Patriarch of Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria? Not the emperor?

Nope.

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