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Title: The Counter/Catholic-Reformation LO: What was the Council of Trent? What happened there?

Title: The Counter/Catholic-Reformation LO: What was the Council of Trent? What happened there?. What is the Counter-Reformation?. Long before Luther started the Reformation many Catholics had been calling for change in the Church.

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Title: The Counter/Catholic-Reformation LO: What was the Council of Trent? What happened there?

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  1. Title: The Counter/Catholic-ReformationLO: What was the Council of Trent?What happened there?

  2. What is the Counter-Reformation? • Long before Luther started the Reformation many Catholics had been calling for change in the Church. • Many also wanted spiritual reform to help bring people closer to God. • The Protestant reformation forced the Church to address these problems. • This is referred to as the ‘Counter-Reformation’.

  3. The Council of Trent

  4. Scotland: Calvinist England: Anglicanism Sweden/ Germany: Lutheran Italy/France/Spain: RC

  5. What was the council of Trent? • I’m excited to find out, as I’m sure each and every single one of you are. • Open your books up to p. 25 and answer questions 1-6 in your books! • Answers need to be in full sentences!!

  6. What was the Council of Trent? • Called by Paul III (r. 1534-1549) who realized the that a Catholic Reform was needed. • He called a ‘general council’ of the Church to clearly state Catholic Teachings, and renew the Church spiritually and practically. • Especially directed to those who had been challenged by the Protestant Reformers.

  7. What was the Council of Trent? • Takes its name from the city of Trent (Trentino) in Northern Italy. • Close to the German lands where many of the Protestants were. • Lasted 18 years, over 3 sessions: first period: 1545-1548 second period: 1551-1552 third period: 1562-1563 • It was interrupted by politics, wars and plague.

  8. Trent Decisions: Doctrine • Doctrine of transubstantiation is upheld. (Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist) • The Mass is a sacrifice. Presided over by a Priest. • The position of the Pope as the successor of St Peter and the Vicar of Christ was affirmed. • Human nature is not totally depraved. • Justification comes through faith, hope and charity (love) which includes good works. • Scripture and Tradition are an expression of God’s Revelation. • Traditional 7 Sacraments were upheld.

  9. Trent Decisions: Church Discipline System where one person controlled a number of parishes Bishops held ‘titles’ to dioceses they never visited but received taxes from them. • A seminary for the education of priests was to be set up in each diocese. • Decrees were passed against pluralism and absenteeism by clergy and religious. • Indulgence selling was abolished.

  10. After Trent • A Roman Catechism was written to help priests educate the laity. (1566) • The Roman Missal (1570) set out a reformed and uniform order of the Mass throughout the Catholic world. • The infamous Inquisition was established.

  11. The Inquisition • Had been first formed in the 13th century, for trying those accused of heresy. It had virtually fallen into disuse. • In 1542 it was revived to suppress heresy, particularly in Italy and Spain. • Torture was often used to extract confessions and those condemned of heresy were often handed over to the State to be burned.

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