The Reformation and Counter-Reformation

4.3 The Counter Reformation

The Counter Reformation

• The Catholic reaction to the Reformation is

officially known as the Counter Reformation.

• It took a two-pronged approach:

• Renew a spirit of religious devotion within

the church

• Respond to challenges to church doctrine

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Reform of Church Practice

• The most influential reform effort was likely

the founding of the Society of Jesus, or
Jesuits.

• The Jesuits sought to suppress heresy

(Protestantism), promote Roman Catholic
education, and spread the Catholic faith to
other countries.

Multiple Choice

What was the most influential Catholic Reform effort?

• Jesuits

• Theatine

• Capuchin

• Ursuline

Multiple Choice

What did Jesuits promote?

• Catholic Education and Spreading Catholic faith to other countries

• Protestant Education and Spreading Protestant faith to other countries

Jesuits

a new Catholic monastic order

founded during the Reformation to
stop the spread of Protestantism

Think of problems the Catholic church had due to reformation and possible solutions for those problems.

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Inquisition

• An Inquisition was an

organization that was set up by the church to find and remove heretics.

​Heresy: belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine

Inquisition

a Roman Catholic Church court set up

to find and punish heretics

Inquisition

• Pope Paul III organized an

Inquisition in 1542 to
combat the gains of the
Protestant Reformation.

• Failure to confess could lead

to torture and being burned
at the stake.

Multiple Choice

How did the Catholic Church and governments deal with heresy?

• They paid mercenaries to hunt protestants

• They made new countries to isolate themselves

• The created inquisitions to find and remove

Multiple Choice

Who organized the Inquisition in 1542?

• Pope Leo X

• Pope Boniface VIII

• Pope Paul III

• Pope Peter II

Inquisition

• Guilty Until Proven Guilty?

If you were accused of heresy you could be:

• Taken in the middle of a night to a trial

• Tortured & Burned at the stake

• Family members could be arrested

• Property taken by the church

Multiple Choice

If an Inquisition agent thought you were protestant the courts believed you were _________?

• Guilty

• Innocent

Multiple Select

Select 3 things that could happen to people accused of heresy ?

• Arrested in the middle of the night

• Family members arrested & property taken

• Catholic church would issue penance and be forgiven

• Tortured & Burned at the stake

• Receive a fair trial

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Index of Prohibited Books

• When the Catholic Church realized the impact

that printed materials were having on the
spread of the Reformation, they published a
list called the Index of Prohibited Books.

• Most versions of the Bible and all Protestant

literature were prohibited.

Index of Prohibited Books

a list of books and Bible translations
that were forbidden and declared
heretical by the Catholic Church
during the Counter Reformation

Multiple Choice

What invention led to spread of Protestant literature?

• The telephone

• The moveable-type printer

• The Silk Road

• The writing quills

Multiple Choice

What strategy did the Catholic Church NOT use for stopping the spread of Reformation ideas? (choose 1)

• abolished corrupt practices

• created new religious orders (groups)

• tried and punished suspected heretics

• prohibited Catholics from reading protestant books

• added protestant teachings to their Bible

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Council of Trent

Council of Trent

• The Council of Trent met several times over a

twenty-year period.

• The council wrote a statement of Roman

Catholic beliefs and practices.

• The church made no major changes to its

doctrine.

Council of Trent

a meeting of Catholic leaders during
the Reformation that produced the
first written statement containing all

Catholic doctrines

Multiple Choice

The Council of Trent only met once.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The Council of Trent wrote a statement of ____________.

• Roman Catholic beliefs and practices

• Reformation laws and punishments

• Protestant beliefs and practices

• Apology to reformers

Multiple Choice

The Catholic church no longer believed that works was necessary for salvation.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The Council of Trent decided that__________ was/were needed to link people to God.

• nothing

• human priest

• only the Pope

• Angels

Multiple Choice

Did Catholic doctrine change?

• No, they just ordered corrupt practices to stop and became stricter.

• Yes, they took away all the rules that did not match the Bible and created new ones

Wars of Religion

• Much of northern Europe had accepted

Protestantism.

• Southern Europe, most especially Spain and

Italy, remained strongly Catholic.

Multiple Choice

Which regions of Europe embraced Protestantism?

• Most of northern Europe

• Most of southern Europe

• Most of eastern Europe

• Most of western Europe

Multiple Choice

Which regions of Europe remained strongly Catholic?

• Most of northern Europe

• Most of southern Europe

• Most of eastern Europe

• Most of western Europe

Wars of Religion

• Divisions in Europe over the Reformation led

to a series of wars in the 1500s and 1600s that
are sometimes collectively known as the wars
of religion.

What to Know

People
• Petrarch
• Castiglione
• Machiavelli
• Erasmus
• Sir Thomas More

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo
• John Wycliffe
• John Huss
• Martin Luther

What to Know

People
• Ulrich Zwingli
• Anabaptists
• John Calvin
• Jesuits

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