Context to the Era: Catholic Counter-Reformation Flashcards
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What Council was formed to reduce the spread of the Protestant Reformation and in what year?
Council of Trent, 1545
When did the Council of Trent end?
1563
What did the Council of Trent repurpose?
The Inquisition
When was the Inquisition originally formed and what was their original purpose?
Formed in the 1200’s to reduce Heresy
What was the new purpose of the Inquisition by the Council of Trent?
To reduce the spread of Protestantarianism
Name 2 things which the Council of Trent enforced
Transubstantiation and Indulgences
What did the Catholic Church continue to believe about how to achieve Salvation?
It would need to be done through faith and good works
Name one way that the Catholic Counter-Reformation gave more power to the Catholic Church
They made it so that Catholics were forbidden to read certain books
What piece of writing dictated which books were forbidden for Catholics to read?
The Papal Index
Even though the Catholic Church gained power through their Counter-Reformation, what was a limitation to the power gain?
They could only get more power with people who were already Catholics
