Counter-Reformation
Rome's Protestant rebuttal
The Counter-Reformation was the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries.
It involved internal reform, the Council of Trent, the founding of the Jesuits, and efforts to reclaim Protestant territories.
The movement shaped European politics, art, and religious practice for centuries.
Also written as one word. (Lowercase counterreformation refers to any reactionary movement against reform.)
Pope's office and authority
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- bishopsHigh-ranking clergy members
- seminariesInstitutions training clergy
monasticism · religious orders · Jesuits · censorship · Index · visitations
Catholic ecclesiastical congress addressing reformation
- JesuitsIgnatian Catholic religious order
- Philip IIAncient Macedonian ruler
- HabsburgsAustrian imperial dynasty
- Peace of Augsburg1555 German religious treaty
Spanish Armada · Trento · Baroque · Holy Roman Empire · Edict of Nantes · Thirty Years War
Unchallengeable official beliefs
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
- sacramentsSacred Christian rites
- transubstantiationChange of underlying substance
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
indulgences · justification · grace · tradition · scripture · catechism · canon · infallibility
Sincere religious devotion
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- mysticismPursuit of divine union
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
mass · liturgy · Eucharist · rosary · pilgrimage · martyrdom · saints · relics
Ornate artistic period
- religious artArtwork expressing faith
- El GrecoSpanish Renaissance painter
- CaravaggioRenaissance-era Italian painter
- polyphonySimultaneous independent melodic lines
Bernini · Victoria · sacred music · iconography · allegory · theatricality · ornamentation
papacy
Pope's office and authority
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- bishopsHigh-ranking clergy members
seminaries · monasticism · religious orders · Jesuits · censorship · Index · visitations
Council of Trent
Catholic ecclesiastical congress addressing reformation
- JesuitsIgnatian Catholic religious order
- Philip IIAncient Macedonian ruler
- HabsburgsAustrian imperial dynasty
Peace of Augsburg · Spanish Armada · Trento · Baroque · Holy Roman Empire · Edict of Nantes · Thirty Years War
dogma
Unchallengeable official beliefs
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
- sacramentsSacred Christian rites
- transubstantiationChange of underlying substance
purgatory · indulgences · justification · grace · tradition · scripture · catechism · canon · infallibility · orthodoxy
piety
Sincere religious devotion
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- mysticismPursuit of divine union
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
confession · mass · liturgy · Eucharist · rosary · pilgrimage · martyrdom · saints · relics · religious art
Baroque
Ornate artistic period
- religious artArtwork expressing faith
- El GrecoSpanish Renaissance painter
- CaravaggioRenaissance-era Italian painter
Bernini · polyphony · Victoria · sacred music · iconography · allegory · theatricality · ornamentation
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, Holy Communion, popes
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- Baroquebaroque music, baroque art, Bernini, Bach, Handel
- church historychurch history, apostles, Christian history, baptism, medieval church
- Early ModernRenaissance, 1500s, 1600s, sixteenth century, seventeenth century
Counter-ReformationReformation
Religious movement splitting Christianity
Protestant Reformation · Protestantism · evangelical movement · Radical Reformation · first cause
Counter-ReformationProtestantism
Reformation-era Christian movement
Calvinism · Lutheranism · Anglicanism · Presbyterianism · anticlericalism
reform, reformed, reformer, reformatory, reformative, Reformation