The Cambridge companion to the Council of Trent / edited by Nelson H. Minnich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minnich, Nelson H., editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to religion.

Cambridge companions to religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Council of Trent (1545-1563 : Trento, Italy).

Council of Trent.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 356 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The Council of Trent was a major event in the history of Christianity. It shaped Roman Catholicism's doctrine and practice for the next four hundred years and continues to do so today. The literature on the Council is vast and in numerous languages. This Companion, written by an international group of leading researchers, brings together the latest scholarship on the principal issues treated at the Council: the relationship between Scripture and Tradition, original sin, justification, the sacraments (Baptism, Penance, Confirmation, Eucharist, Holy Orders, Marriage, and the Annointing of the Sick), sacred images, sacred music, and its reform of religious orders, the training of the clergy, the provision of pastoral care in the parish setting, and the implementation of its decrees. The volume demonstrates that the Council unwittingly furthered the papal centralization of authority by allowing the interpretation of its decrees to be the exclusive prerogative of the Holy See, and entrusting it with their implementation.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Frontispiece

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction: Historical Survey of the Council of Trent

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Literature

2 The Organizational Structure of the Council of Trent

3 Schools of Theology at the Council of Trent

Conclusion

4 Scripture and Traditions at the Council of Trent: The Fourth and Fifth Sessions (1546)

Introduction

Scripture and Tradition(s)

The Canonical Books of Scripture

The Authenticity of the Vulgate

Interpretation and Diffusion of Scripture

Scripture Taught and Preached

5 Original Sin and Justification

The Decree on Original Sin

The Theological Context

The Drafting of the Decree on Original Sin

The Decree: Contents and Debates

Adam's Sin: Canon 1

The Transmission of Original Sin: Canons 2 and 3

The Remedy for Original Sin: Canons 3 and 4

The Removal of Original Sin: Canon 5

Original Sin and the Blessed Virgin: Canon 6

Adoption

The Decree on Justification

The Drafting of the Decree on Justification

Sin, Christ, and an Initial Definition: Chapters 1 through 4.

Preparation for Justification: Chapters 5, 6, and 8

The Nature and Causes of Justification: Chapter 7

Double Justice and the Formal Cause of Justification.

The Course of the Debate.

The Content of the Debate.

Justification by Faith? Chapters 7 and 8

Certainty of Grace: Chapter 9

Maintenance and Perseverance in Justification: Chapters 10 through 15

Merit before the Judgment of God: Chapter 16

6 Sacraments in General, Baptism and Confirmation.

Introduction

The Sacraments in General

The Canons on Baptism and Confirmation

7 The Sacrament of Penance at the Council: Innovation As a Confirmation of the Centuries-Old Tradition of Confession

The Sixteenth-Century Critiques in the Decades before Trent

Debates and Conciliar Decrees in the Mid-Sixteenth Century

Tradition and Innovation after the Conclusion of the Council

8 Presence and Sacrifice: The Council of Trent on the Eucharist

The Eucharist As Sacrament

Two Kinds

The Eucharist As Sacrifice

9 Bishops

The Ideal and the Actual Bishop

Questions of Power: A Divine or Human Origin?

Questions of Duty: The Shepherd and His Souls

10 The Tridentine Proposal for the Formation of the Clergy: The Seminaries

The Urgency of the Training of the Candidates to the Priesthood

The Council of Trent and the Birth of the Seminaries

Sources of Funding

The Development of the Institution

11 Pastoral Care

Debating Pastoral Care at the Council

A Post-Tridentine Model for Pastoral Care

12 The Decree on Marriage

On the Eve of the Council of Trent

The Sacrament of Marriage

Divorce

Clandestine Marriages

The Marriage Reform

13 Reform of the Religious Orders

The Setting

Antecedents

The Conciliar Debate

The Decree

Reception

14 Sacred Art

The Council of Trent's Decree

Response to the Decree

Implementation of the Decree

Church Architecture

Sacred Images

15 Sacred Music

The Work of the Council and the Commission of Cardinals

Trent and the Regulatory Tradition

Avoiding the ''Wanton or Impure''

Music in Convents.

Chant Reform and Calendrical Collections

16 The Papacy and the Application of Conciliar Decrees

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108590280

1108590284

9781108676427

1108676421

9781108579926

1108579922