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How Did Henry's Beliefs Influence Society

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Henry took England out from under Rome’s religious control, and declared himself as the reigning head of State to also be the new head of the Church. This new branch of the Christian Church, neither Roman Catholic nor truly Protestant, became known as the Anglican Church or the Church of England. His main belief was that God had had created society as it was and that this society should not change or be challenged. Henry believed that women were inferior to men and that those who were born into poverty were there because that was the way God ordained it to be.Henry also fully believed that the social order of England had to be maintained at all
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