In a message dated 01/19/2000 3:11:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> I pretty good place to start is John C. Olin's _Catholic Reform:
> From Cardinal Ximenes to the Council of Trent, 1495-1563_ (New
> York: Fordham UP, 1990). It is actually a series of documents for
> teaching, but the introductory essay does a nice job in placing
> Trent in a fairly broad context.
>
> John Bossy's Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (Oxford, 1985),
> would also be helpful.
>
> And of course there is H. Jedin's installment in the Handbook of
> Church History: always interesting to read, even if you find his
> historiographical commitments irritating. :-)
>
> Cheers
> Jim
>
At Trent, I'm interested in the admonition against making interpretations of
the Bible that aren't consistent with the Church's interpretations.
The admonition couldn't have been directed at Protestants, because they
wouldn't have been bound by it. Was there a problem within the Church itself
of lay people making overly innovative interpretations of the Bible?
pat sloane
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