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Counter Reformation Part 1

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Counter Reformation Part 1

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hi my name's Paul Sargent and welcome once again to AP Euro bit by bit the series in which I'm trying to teach you modern European history and small bite-sized pieces so that you can better understand it so today we're going to look at the response of the Catholic Church to the Protestant Reformation becomes in history as the Catholic or the counter-reformation so let's get into it so it's been watching a Puro bit by bit you'll see that the Protestant Reformation it fundamentally changed the way religion worked in Europe Spa Tustin Group started by Martin Luther and continued by the second generation of guys like Calvin and zwingli and others decided to break away from the Catholic church and a challenge Catholic dogma Catholic Doctrine the belief that Catholic church had about salvation and the way they're going about doing business and this is a Catholic Church that had unified Christendom into one thing for nearly a thousand years until now they were face a unique challenge they decided to meet together at the Council of Trent and the Really the goals of the Council of Trent we're to do two things number one they were going to respond to the challenges of protestant groups number to they're going to respond to complaint about abuses within the Catholic Church coming from well within the Catholic church so their entire program and what they decided it was really based on three principles that just so you understand this Council met for a very long time intermittently they met between 1545 and 1563 and in the end they decided first of all that they were going to a Catholic Doctrine Catholic dogma the beliefs of the Catholic church and their solution to this was really very simple they weren't going to change them they Catholic believe having been established for 1500 years what is correct the Salvation involved both faith and good works there were seven sacraments that needed to be followed and they also affirmed that Authority in religious matters comes not only from Bible but also from the collected writings and understandings and everything else produced by the Catholic church and Catholic thinkers for the last fifteen hundred years so they didn't give any grounded Artisans on the doctor on the side they said Protestants were wrong on this the second thing addressed by the Council of Trent was abuses within the Catholic church now these were the things that really started Reformation efforts the fact that there were things didn't seem quite Catholic and the Catholic Church readily admitted that there were problems and so they made a series of reforms within the church to change some of the practices of the people with in the church for example they outlaw the practice of simony buying Church offices they reinstituted

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