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2 days ago · The Counter-Reformation (Latin: Contrareformatio), also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time.
6 days ago · 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. Following the start of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the ...
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Apr 30, 2024 · The sack of Rome shocked Europe and for decades afterward was a byword for wanton brutality, just as it took Rome decades to rebuild. The event can be understood as an episode in the then growing war between the Catholic Church and the forces of the Protestant Reformation, one that raged for nearly two centuries. It is also considered to mark ...
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Apr 20, 2024 · As a centuries-long culmination of theological discontent, the Protestant Reformation challenged the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, sparking widespread reforms and the fragmentation of Christendom. On the other hand, the Counter-Reformation, a direct response from the Church, sought to rectify clerical abuses and reaffirm Catholic dogmas.
May 3, 2024 · The Historical Dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation provides a comprehensive account of two chains of events--the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation--that have left an enduring imprint on Europe, America, and the world at large.
- Steve Michaels, MDiv, Mlis
- 2009
4 days ago · Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN: 521820170X; 312pp.; Price: £47.50. Professor Robert Bireley SJ in his study The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors proposes to answer three closely interrelated questions. First, what influence Jesuits and Jesuit confessors in particular had on the policies of war ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Bernard Hamilton. Saint Pius V ; canonized May 22, 1712; feast day April 30) was an Italian ascetic, reformer, and relentless persecutor of heretics, whose papacy (1566–72) marked one of the most austere periods in Roman Catholic church history. During his reign, the Inquisition was successful in eliminating.
