HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Council Of Trent, Marrano, Alhambra Decree
11 Apr 2020
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The council of trent is an obvious attempt at catholic reform. It laid down the law sometimes for the first time. It regarded the relationship between scripture, tradition, sacrament and justification: mystical reform. Not every catholic reformer took a doctrinaire or conciliar stance. Other reformers aimed to defy luther, calvin and other extra-ecclesial reformers. This was done by appealing more directly to the spirit itself: the spirit itself. Appealing to the spirit may sound abstract at first. It made perfect sense in light of the reformers" appeal to the same spirit in scriptural exegesis. The question became who possessed the true right to invoke the holy spirit: mysticism in the reformers. While luther and calvin would claim the spirit as a guide to their readings or scripture. They had to content with a long history of spiritual mysticism. Recalling the mystical influences on calvin via faber: regions of reform.
