Catholic Church and the Counter Reformation

Objectives

  1. The Catholic Church formed a new order called the Jesuits led by Ignatius Loyola and emphasized education.
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  1. The Council of Trent (1545-1563) examined how the Catholic Church would reform for the better. It played a vital role in revitalizing the Roman Catholic Church in many parts image of Europe.

Baroque

Loyola + Jesuits

Council of Trent

  1. The baroque art, music, and architecture style was adopted by the Catholic Church to bring out the strong emotions of the Christian faith.
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Affirmation Catholic of Doctrine..... Had the sources of Authority Scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium. They believed to get to heaven it's by God's will.

Reformation of Church Practice....... You have to increase the quality to the priest. They had to create schools for training priest Catholic churches says that you can have indulgences but you can not sell them.

It took 18 years to make the church better

  1. The Catholic Church responded to the Protestant movement with the Counter Reformation.
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He was a knight and converted to become a priest. Who thought everything was spiritual warfare. Instead of weapon he believed education was the way to go. He believed that you had to exercise even spiritual exercise.

St. Teresa of Avila was a Monastic reformer, Theologian, and Mystic.

in 1521 Ignatius was gravely wounded in a battle with the French

He was inflamed by the ideals of courtly love and knighthood and dreamed of doing great deeds.

Later Baroque style was termed Rococo , a style characterized by increasingly decorative and complicated works.

Encouraged by the Catholic Church, which had decided at the Council of Trent that the arts

Protestants endorse justification by faith alone

Protestant Reformers rejected the Apocrypha as part of the biblical canon