While the Catholic Reformation technically started before the Protestant Reformation, the onset of Protestantism gave it a new character. Before, the church was reforming due to inner necessities, but now the church had actual issues to respond to from the Protestants (Gonzalez, Vol. 2, pg. 138).
The three types of the reformation were spiritual, administrative, and doctrinal.
The spiritual type included the developmentive new orders. There were the Capuchin Franciscan monastics. They were much stricter with the poverty aspect because they felt the original Franciscans had lost touch with their original roots. They wanted to show the true face of the church. This group was pretty traditional because they really sought to get back to the …show more content…
After years of controversy over whether or not calling a universal council together would be a good idea, it was eventually decided a council would meet in Trent in December of 1545 (Gonzalez, Vol. 2, pg. 147). The Council of Trent’s key objectives were to cease church abuses, clarify Catholic doctrine, and condemn Protestant teachings. Basically, the Catholic Church was making an effort to lay down religious dogma. The key doctrines exclude all Protestants teachings that were teaching work and scripture are of equal value and importance. The Latin Vulgate is the official version of the Catholic Church, and while other versions were not condemned, they were discouraged. This discouragement shows the exclusiveness the Catholic Church seems to continue to present. The Catholic Church believed justification of faith and works contributes just as much as your faith as scipture, which was one key splitting factor between the Catholics and Protestants. The Catholic Church accepted seven sacraments versus the two sacraments Protestants accepted. Some examples of the issues the Council of Trent dealt with included transubstantiation (which deals with the eucharist and what is actually happening to the bread and wine), saintly intercession (meaning you can pray to saints), the idea that purgatory exists, and holy relics (which refers to the bones of saints). On the subject of transubstantiation, the Council of Trent says, “Since Christ our Redeemer said that that which he offered under the appearance of bread was truly his body, it has therefore always been held in the Church of God, and this holy Synod new declares anew, that through consecration of the bread and wine there comes about a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord,and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. And this conversion is by the Holy Catholic Church conveniently and properly
The three types of the reformation were spiritual, administrative, and doctrinal.
The spiritual type included the developmentive new orders. There were the Capuchin Franciscan monastics. They were much stricter with the poverty aspect because they felt the original Franciscans had lost touch with their original roots. They wanted to show the true face of the church. This group was pretty traditional because they really sought to get back to the …show more content…
After years of controversy over whether or not calling a universal council together would be a good idea, it was eventually decided a council would meet in Trent in December of 1545 (Gonzalez, Vol. 2, pg. 147). The Council of Trent’s key objectives were to cease church abuses, clarify Catholic doctrine, and condemn Protestant teachings. Basically, the Catholic Church was making an effort to lay down religious dogma. The key doctrines exclude all Protestants teachings that were teaching work and scripture are of equal value and importance. The Latin Vulgate is the official version of the Catholic Church, and while other versions were not condemned, they were discouraged. This discouragement shows the exclusiveness the Catholic Church seems to continue to present. The Catholic Church believed justification of faith and works contributes just as much as your faith as scipture, which was one key splitting factor between the Catholics and Protestants. The Catholic Church accepted seven sacraments versus the two sacraments Protestants accepted. Some examples of the issues the Council of Trent dealt with included transubstantiation (which deals with the eucharist and what is actually happening to the bread and wine), saintly intercession (meaning you can pray to saints), the idea that purgatory exists, and holy relics (which refers to the bones of saints). On the subject of transubstantiation, the Council of Trent says, “Since Christ our Redeemer said that that which he offered under the appearance of bread was truly his body, it has therefore always been held in the Church of God, and this holy Synod new declares anew, that through consecration of the bread and wine there comes about a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord,and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. And this conversion is by the Holy Catholic Church conveniently and properly