Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Counter Reformation: Society and Culture in the Early Modern Era

Counterreformation: The Catholic Response
Pope Paul III 1534-1549
Ignatius Loyola founded the Society of Jesus
1534 (1540 the date of approval)
The Jesuits acted as missionaries
1545 The council of Trent

The Counterreformation aimed at the restoration of papal authority yet the split could not be recovered.
The doctrines of the Catholic faith were redefined
Abuses were forbidden
Inquisition was revived


Following the Reformation and the Counterreformation:
The religious unity of Europe was broken, but the early modern state formation accelerated in Europe


Max Weber,
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1904-5 “ The Protestant ethic was a secular ethic, an ethic of this world. As such it includes an economic ethic”.