A!. promote Lutheranism
B!. Get artists to work for the Catholic Church
C!. try to stop Protestantism from spreading
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Position:Home>History> The Council of Trent was a series of meetings to?Question: The Council of Trent was a series of meetings to!? A!. promote Lutheranism
B!. Get artists to work for the Catholic Church C!. try to stop Protestantism from spreading D!. get the English kings to convert back to CatholicismWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: CWww@QuestionHome@Com C!. Stop Protestantism!. The emperor was loyal to the Pope and the Church!.Www@QuestionHome@Com CWww@QuestionHome@Com c http://education!.yahoo!.com/reference/enc!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com C!.! 1!. To condemn the principles and doctrines of Protestantism and to define the doctrines of the Catholic Church on all disputed points!. It is true that the emperor intended it to be a strictly general or truly ecumenical council, at which the Protestants should have a fair hearing!. He secured, during the council's second period, 1551-53, an invitation, twice given, to the Protestants to be present and the council issued a letter of safe conduct (thirteenth session) and offered them the right of discussion, but denied them a vote!. Melanchthon and Johannes Brenz, with some other German Lutherans, actually started in 1552 on the journey to Trent!. Brenz offered a confession and Melanchthon, who got no farther than Nuremberg, took with him the ironic statement known as the Confessio Saxonica!. But the refusal to give to the Protestants the right to vote and the consternation produced by the success of Bornfeld in his campaign against Charles V in 1552 effectually put an end to Protestant cooperation!. 2!. To effect a reformation in discipline or administration!. This object had been one of the causes calling forth the reformatory councils and had been lightly touched upon by the Fifth Council of the Lateran under Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X!. The alleged corruption in the administration of the Church was one of the secondary causes of the Reformation!. Twenty-five public sessions were held, but nearly half of them were spent in solemn formalities!. The chief work was done in committees or congregations!. The entire management was in the hands of the papal legate!. The liberal elements lost out in the debates and voting!. The council abolished some of the most notorious abuses and introduced or recommended disciplinary reforms affecting the sale of indulgences, the morals of convents, the education of the clergy, the non-residence of bishops (also bishops having plurality of benefices, which was fairly common), and the careless fulmination of censures and forbade dueling!. Although evangelical sentiments were uttered by some of the members in favor of the supreme authority of the Scriptures and justification by faith, no concession whatever was made to Protestantism!. 3!. The church's interpretation of the Bible was final!. Any Christian who substituted his or her own interpretation was a heretic!. also, the Bible and Church Tradition (not mere customs but the ancient Tradition that made up part of the Catholic faith) were equally authoritative!. 4!. The relationship of faith and works in salvation was defined, following controversy over Martin Luther's doctrine of "justification by faith alone"!. 5!. Other Catholic practices that drew the ire of reformers within the Church, such as Indulgences, pilgrimages, the veneration of saints and relics, and the veneration of the Virgin Mary were strongly reaffirmed!. The doctrinal decisions of the council are divided into decrees (decreta), which contain the positive statement of the conciliar dogmas, and into short canons (canones), which condemn the dissenting Protestant views with the concluding "anathema sit" ("let him be anathema")!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |