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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Robert Birely’s The Refashioning of Catholicism examines the Catholic Reformation in a broader context (1450-1700) than was treated in this lecture and argues, as I have, that the term “Counter-Reformation” is not appropriate.
- The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
- The Spiritual Exercises
- The Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola
- John Patrick Donnelly’s Ignatius of Loyola is an accessible and nonpartisan introduction to the life of Ignatius.
- The canons and decrees of the Council of Trent
Catholic Reformation – Quiz
- Explain why the term “Counter-Reformation” is not a fully satisfactory term to describe the reform efforts within the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century.
- Identify three religious orders other than the Society of Jesus that began during the 1520s and 1530s.
- ___________________ was probably the most famous Roman Catholic mystic of the 16th century.
- ___________________ founded the Society of Jesus and authored a hugely influential devotional manual called ___________________.
- Pope ______________ initiated important reforms in the Church and summoned the Council of Trent.
- Identify at least two significant results of the Council of Trent.
- By 1560, most of northern Europe was of the __________________ faith, whereas southern Europe was almost exclusively _________________.
- It implies that all reform was a response to the Protestant Reformation.
- Theatines; Ursulines; Capuchins
- St. Teresa of Avila
- Ignatius of Loyola; Spiritual Exercises
- Paul III
- reform of abuses; liturgical reform; reaffirmation of traditional doctrine
- Protestant; Roman Catholic