The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700
Subtitle: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780813209517
Subjects: History of religion; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Modern period, 1500-; Christianity - History - General; Religion - Catholicism; Religion; Religion - Roman Catholic; Christianity - Catholic; Christianity - History - Catholic; Catholic Church; Counter-Reformation; History
First sentence: Throughout its history Christianity has accommodated and adapted to contemporary culture and society in order to reach people effectively and to have an impact on its world.
Description: "Throughout its history, Christianity has adapted to contemporary society and culture in order to reach people effectively and have an impact on the world. This process often evokes controversy. Certainly this is the case in the current century, and so it was in the sixteenth.

Robert Bireley argues that early modern Catholicism, the period known more traditionally as the Counter Reformation, was both shaped by and an active response to the profound changes of the sixteenth century - the growth of the state; economic expansion and social dislocation; European colonialism across the seas; the Renaissance; and, of course, the Protestant Reformation."--BOOK JACKET.