H333 The Destruction of Christian Unity: The Reformation

3 credit(s)

The Reformation refers to the sixteenth-century religious movement that culminated in both the reform of the Latin Church and its division. The course surveys the state of the Church before Luther, a time of great upheaval with popes in Avignon, the Great Schism, and conciliarism. It balances a study of the theological issues such as justification, Scripture, and the sacraments, that defined the magisterial Protestant Reformation in its Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican traditions, with its Catholic counterpart associated with the Council of Trent, a reformed papacy, and new religious orders such as the Jesuits, and Brothers of the Christian Schools. Special emphasis is placed on the longer and shorter intellectual, political, and social causes of the Reformation, some of which can be traced back to ideas, often heretical, found in the early Church and to medieval scholastic speculation.

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H333 The Destruction of Christian Unity: The Reformation