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A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2)

BOOK VI. THE COUNTER-REFORMATION.

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CHAPTER I.

The Necessity of a Reformation of some sort universally admitted.

Variety of complaints against the mediæval Church 484

Formation of local churches 487

CHAPTER II.

The Spanish Conception of a Reformation.

§ 1. The religious condition of Spain 488

§ 2. The reformation under Ximenes 490

§ 3. The Spaniards and Luther 493

§ 4. Pope Adrian VI. and the Spanish Reformation 496

CHAPTER III.

Italian liberal Roman Catholics and their Conception of a Reformation.

§ 1. The religious condition of Italy 501

§ 2. Italian Roman Catholic Reformers 504

§ 3. Cardinals Contarini and Caraffa 513

§ 4. The Conference at Regensburg 519

CHAPTER IV.

Ignatius Loyola and the Company of Jesus.

§ 1. At Manresa 525

§ 2. Ignatius at Paris. The ecclesiastical situation at Paris 533

§ 3. The Spiritual Exercises 538

§ 4. Ignatius in Italy 545

§ 5. The Society of Jesus 549

CHAPTER V.

The Council of Trent.

§ 1. The assembling of the Council 564

§ 2. Procedure at the Council 568

§ 3. Restatement of Doctrines 570

The Doctrine of the Rule of Faith 572

Original Sin and Justification 575

§ 4. The second meeting of the Council 581

§ 5. The third meeting of the Council 587

The position of the Pope strengthened 593

CHAPTER VI.

The Inquisition and the Index.

§ 1. The Inquisition in Spain 597

§ 2. The Inquisition in Italy 600

§ 3. The Index of prohibited books 602

§ 4. The Society of Jesus and the Counter-Reformation 606

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