HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ignatius Of Loyola, Protestantism, Centrality
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Power of state had obligation to compel citizens to behave in a way. Citizens should be controlled in what they think. Machiavelli: nothing, not morality, pity or anything should stand in the ambitions of the ruler . States had always been forceful; this became clarified into a position of principle. Allow any act for raison d"etat: if it furthered the state, it was deemed acceptable. Rcc: use the weapons of control, centralization and statecraft (usually used by secular states) to achieve these goals. Rcc reorganized itself as a central, theocratical monarchy in which sovereignty comes from god. Ensure that any newly contacted peoples would be converted to catholic version of. Combatting protestant threat by looking at causes of revolution. Abuses in church, the weakening of catholicism. Paul realized that the church had to engage in debate. Hold a general council of the church. Reaffirmation of the points identified by protestants of the problems within the rcc.
