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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM OF RECONSTRUCTION The reconstruction of the English Church was the final step in the transformation of the pre-refonnation Church into the present Establishment. Like all great institutional changes, it was a slow growth produced by those natural forces, religious, political, economic, and social, which had lain behind the Reformation itself. It was, moreover, a national movement for the reshaping of the national church into a form better suited than had been the earlier institution to the peculiar needs of the English nation. In the reconstructed church the old life of the previous centuries streamed on in slightly different forms and in new relations. Nor can this growth toward reconstruction be separated, by any hard and fast line, from those varied changes which we have been accustomed to call the Reformation. The Reconstruction of the Church was the natural result and necessary complement of the Reformation. The study of the period is complicated for the student by the fact that the Reformation is at once political, doctrinal, institutional, and legal in its scope. The movement is made still more difficult of comprehension by the tendency to confuse the progress actually effected, with the announcement, by the constituted authorities, of the advance which they believed had been made. Henry VIII and Edward VI were chiefly interested in the political and doctrinal side of the movement, and even seem to have believed that no alterations could take place in the institutional life of the old establishment until they decided to introduce them. But, in truth, those deep, underlying forces, which had made possible the breach from Rome, were daily transforming the Church in ways which neither king nor prelate understood or suspected. The wording of procl...