Theology
The Elizabethan Settlement of 1559, that set the tone for English religious policy until the rise of Laudianism, was theologically a mixture of Calvinism and Lutheranism. Although the doctrine of predestination was often neglected at a parish level in order to offset despair and the ensuing disobedience, the seventeenth of the Thirty-Nine Articles sets an undefined doctrine on predestination as one of the founding principles of the English Church. Unlike Calvinist doctrine on predestination, which is supralapsarian, double and unconditional, the predestination mentioned in the Thirty-Nine Articles may, due to silence and vagueness in controversial points, be understood as infralapsarian, single and/or conditional, and therefore more Zwinglian. The essence of Laudianism in a theological sense was a belief in God's universal grace and the free will of all men to obtain salvation. Thus, Calvinist theories of predestination were rejected, overturning the fundamental teachings of the established Church of England.
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