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”.
