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Sep 2, 2024 · Counter-Reformation - Inquisition, Catholic Church, Reform: The Roman Inquisition was designed chiefly to combat Protestantism. The “Index of Forbidden Books” was established to combat the spread of the Protestant writings. Jesuits were active in education in the aftermath of the Reformation. Other Counter-Reformation goals were an ongoing missionary endeavour, and reconverting regions ...
13 hours ago · Michelangelo's 1498–99 Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica; the Catholic Church was among the patronages of the Renaissance. [89] [90] [91] Partly in response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church engaged in a substantial process of reform and renewal, known as the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reform. [92]
2 days ago · The golden age of Scholasticism; The persecuting society; From the late Middle Ages to the Reformation. The “Babylonian Captivity” Late medieval reform: the Great Schism and conciliarism; Jan Hus; Efforts to heal the East-West Schism; Roman Catholicism on the eve of the Reformation. The decline of Scholastic theology; Expressions of ...
3 days ago · Credit became ever more important in greasing the system. As money increasingly became a god, however, God himself was becoming increasingly neglected, until the arrival of a friar who vowed to take Christianity back to its formative state, and to defeat Mammon by protesting, by being protestant, against the Catholic Church: Martin Luther.
5 days ago · History of Europe - Catholic Reformation, Thirty Years War, Counter-Reformation: Frederick V entered Prague and was crowned king by the rebel Estates in October 1619, but already the Catholic net was closing around him. The axis linking Vienna with Munich, Brussels, and Madrid enjoyed widespread support: subsidies came from Rome and Genoa, while Tuscany and Poland sent troops. Equally serious ...
1 day ago · Roman Catholicism - Crusades, Papacy, Doctrine: The increased authority of the papacy and the relative decline in the power of the emperor became clear in the unforeseen emergence of the Crusades as a major preoccupation of Europe. Gregory VII hoped to lead an army to defend Eastern Christians after their disastrous defeat by the Seljuq Turks at Manzikert (present Malazgirt, Turkey) in 1071 ...
Sep 12, 2024 · Martin Luther - Reformation, Theology, Writings: As a declared heretic and public outlaw, Luther was forced to stay out of the political and religious struggle over the enforcement of the Edict of Worms. Sympathetic rulers and city councils became the protagonists for Luther’s cause and the cause of reform. When Charles V convened a Diet to meet at Augsburg in 1530 to address unresolved ...
