Catholic Reformation Savonarola to St. Ignatius Loyola

Name: Catholic Reformation Savonarola to St. Ignatius Loyola
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ISBN: 9780823214785

ISBN-10: 0823214788

ISBN-13: 9780823214785

Edition: 1993 (Reprint)

Authors: John C. Olin

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This work contains fifteen key documents illustrative of reform in the Church in the period from 1495 to 1540, an age of great religious ferment and upheaval, which is marked historically by the crisis known as the Protestant Reformation. The documents collected in this work focus on the simultaneous struggle for renewal and reform within the Catholic Church. There was much amiss within the Church at the close of the Middle Ages. The Protestant Reformation threw into high relief the urgent need for religious reform. Involving basic questions of doctrine, practice, and authority, this severe trial put in jeopardy the very life of the existing Catholic Church. The balanced selection of…

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List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

John C. Olin is retired as Professor of History, Fordham University



Preface to the Fordham Edition


Preface


Introduction: The Background of Catholic Reform



Savonarola on the Renovation of the Church, 1495



The Oratory of Divine Love, 1497



Colet's Convocation Sermon, 1512



Egidio da Viterbo's Address to the Fifth Lateran Council, 1512



The Reform Bull Supernae dispositionis arbitrio, 1514



Erasmus' Sileni Alcibiadis, 1515



Contarini's De officio episcopi, 1516



Lefevre's Preface to His Commentaries on the Four Gospels, 1521



Adrian VI's Instruction to Chieregati, 1522



The Theatine Rule of 1526



Giberti's Constitutions, after 1527



The Capuchin Constitutions of 1536



The Consilium de emendanda ecclesia, 1537



St. Ignatius Loyola and the Founding of the Jesuits



The Bull of Institution, 1540



Rules for Thinking with the Church


Bibliographical Postscript


Index of Names