Church History the Birth of Research Paper

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More parliamentary action concluded the nation's complete split with the Catholic Church, and began directing church taxes to the monarchy. Growing nationalism in the period leading up to and during the Reformation, both in England and elsewhere, helped leaders and individuals to begin to think independently of Rome, and was aided in the simple collective consciousness of the time by Protestantism. This also led the Church to increase freedoms for nations and leaders remaining papist, in order to retain come control. Much of this can also be traced to the resolution reached in the matter of the split papacy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when local bishop were granted more authority within the Church itself. The rise of Protestantism, then, must be understood as the culminating period of a long trend within the Church's political progression.

Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), was a major figure in the Catholic Counter-Reformation, especially after the issuance of the papal bull establishing the Society.
The Jesuits themselves were instrumental in perpetuating the concepts of traditional Catholicism well into the twentieth century. Other orders also emerged in this period committed to a more rigid adherence to and study of Catholic doctrine, and this was and led to an internal reformation of the Catholic Church. Several councils can also be seen as partially or primarily vehicles of the Counter-Reformation, both in their refutation of many Protestant arguments and tenets and in their support of the pope's authoritative power and the domination of the Catholic Church. Despite continuing quarrels within the church, the collaboration of Catholic citizens and Catholic leaders proved effective from the sixteenth century….....

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