Counter-Reformation initiated by the Council of Trent and spearheaded by the new order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) t (1545–1563)
Ecclesiastical or structural reconfiguration
Religious orders
Spiritual movements
1. Political dimensions
Such reforms included the foundation of seminaries for the proper training of priests in the spiritual life and the theological traditions of the Church
The Waldensian
- late 12th century when Peter Valdez
- followers called themself the poor
- translated the bible in common language.
-did not follow the clergy
The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade
-(1209–1229) was a 20-year military campaign
- By Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, in the south of France.
-They believe only the spirit is good and the physical world is evil
2 Gods old and new testament
-dualism
St. Francis of Assisi
-Founder of the Franciscan Order
-born in 1181 or 1182 and he died in 1226
-military
-1205, heard a voice when praying to fix the church
-He was ordained a deacon, but not a priest.
-Follow the bible literally
-lived in poverty and preach for others to do the same
Renaissance period’s impact on the Church
- Martin Luther got very discouraged about how corrupt the Catholic Church
-The christian church started to separate -mid-fourteenth century in Italy and was in high gear in the fifteenth century.
-The rise of a middle class
-humanism
-The Fall of Constantinople
-The invention of the printing press
-people started to be educated
Concordat of Worms
-sometimes called the Pactum Calixtinum
-1122, agreement by Pope Calixtus II and Emperor Henry V to put an end the power struggle
-church got to elect clergy members
-the separation of state and church
-Emperor relinquishes all claims to control over church positions and property
Western Schism
-from 1378 to 1417
-when there were