9780674066977-0674066979-Trent: What Happened at the Council

Trent: What Happened at the Council

ISBN-13: 9780674066977
ISBN-10: 0674066979
Edition: Illustrated
Author: John W. OMalley
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674066977
ISBN-10: 0674066979
Edition: Illustrated
Author: John W. OMalley
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

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Trent: What Happened at the Council (ISBN-13: 9780674066977 and ISBN-10: 0674066979), written by authors John W. OMalley, was published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press in 2013. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles (History, Religious Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Trent: What Happened at the Council (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $5.26.

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The Council of Trent (1545–1563), the Catholic Church’s attempt to put its house in order in response to the Protestant Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. Now, in this first full one-volume history in modern times, John W. O’Malley brings to life the volatile issues that pushed several Holy Roman emperors, kings and queens of France, and five popes―and all of Europe with them―repeatedly to the brink of disaster.

During the council’s eighteen years, war and threat of war among the key players, as well as the Ottoman Turks’ onslaught against Christendom, turned the council into a perilous enterprise. Its leaders declined to make a pronouncement on war against infidels, but Trent’s most glaring and ironic silence was on the authority of the papacy itself. The popes, who reigned as Italian monarchs while serving as pastors, did everything in their power to keep papal reform out of the council’s hands―and their power was considerable. O’Malley shows how the council pursued its contentious parallel agenda of reforming the Church while simultaneously asserting Catholic doctrine.

Like What Happened at Vatican II, O’Malley’s Trent: What Happened at the Council strips mythology from historical truth while providing a clear, concise, and fascinating account of a pivotal episode in Church history. In celebration of the 450th anniversary of the council’s closing, it sets the record straight about the much misunderstood failures and achievements of this critical moment in European history.

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