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3 days ago · Friction between Rome and nationalist tendencies within the Catholic church facilitated the spread of Protestantism. In France the Gallican church was traditionally nationalist and antipapal in outlook, while in England the Reformation in its early stages took the form of the preservation of Catholic doctrine and the denial of papal jurisdiction.
21 hours ago · If the Catholic Church was depicted as a monstrous ass by Cranach, then printmaker Hans Brosamer would imagine the father of the Reformation as an apocalyptic beast in “The Seven-Headed Luther ...
5 days ago · Indeed, the papacy established two institutions, the Roman Inquisition and the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (“Index of Forbidden Books”), specifically to combat the Protestant Reformation. The Counter-Reformation was instituted wherever there had been a Protestant Reformation, but it met with strikingly varied degrees of success.
11 hours ago · The centralization and expansion that led to the achievements of the Roman Catholic Church in the High Middle Ages were not without their negative consequences, some of which were part of a broader societal development known as the formation of a “persecuting society.”
2 days ago · St. Robert Bellarmine, whose feast is celebrated Sept. 17 on the General Roman Calendar, was a Jesuit and a cardinal who used his incredible intellect to defend Catholic teaching, largely...
1 day ago · Progressives love to quote the first half of Madison’s argument: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” while conservatives highlight the second half: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”. Madison, however, affirms both equally, grounding them in a ...
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1 day ago · t. e. The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the ...
