Title: The spirit of the Counter-Reformation : the Birkbeck lectures in ecclesiastical history given in the University of Cambridge in May 1951 /
Authors: Evennett, H. O. 1901-1964.; Bossy, John.
Year: 1968
Subjects: Counter-Reformation.; Europe Church history
Abstract: Isolates the special and positive characteristics of the Counter-Reformation and accounts for them in relation to the environment in which they developed. The author sees in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation an attempt not to check but to extend and come to terms with the more individualistic and modern environment in which the Catholic Church found itself. The Jesuits are treated as agents of this change.
Contents: Towards a new definition -- Counter-Reformation spirituality -- St. Ignatius and the Spiritual Exercises -- The reorientation of the religious life -- Institutional reform -- The new organs of church government.