8. The Catholic Reformation Flashcards
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Counter reformation?
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The Catholic Church had been steadily battling the opposition for over four hundreds years.
Catholic reformation or counter reformation was the catholic answer to Protestantism.
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Origin of catholic reformation?
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- Catholics had been concerned with the state of their church long before the reformation and were especially worried about things like
Clerical greed, sale of indulgences, ignorance and superstition, simony and pluralism.
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What were the 3 aims of the catholic reformation?
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- Preserve the basic beliefs and practices of Catholicism but with a new spirit.
- Attempted to turn back and stop the spread of Protestantism
- Sought to secure the church against the more liberalizing effects of the renaissance.
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First phase of the counter reformation?
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- At first, church left the response to reformers in the hands of individuals.
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Who was ignatius Loyola?
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- Spanish soldier wounded by cannonball in 1521
- 1523: visited holy land, church would not permit him to teach without learning, enrolled at university of alcala
- went to Rome and placed himself at the service of pope Paul III
- Paul saw potential for accomplishment
- Established a new religious order in 1540: society of Jesus with the purpose of preaching and winning over new converts
- served as the strike force of the counter reformation
- organized as the army of God
- wrote spiritual exercises to train the Jesuits
- writing influenced by Thomas a Kempis
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What were some of the Jesuit accomplishments?
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- founded schools and colleges
- served as advisors to catholic kings
- dominated higher studies in many fields
- extended moral discipline to local level
- led Catholics to re conquest over Protestants
- missionaries followed Spanish and protégéus traders to Americas and Far East
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Discuss the counter reformation?
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Inquisition: Protestants were subject to imrisonment, torture and death
