Renewing Christianity : A History of Church Reform from Day One to Vatican II

by Bellitto, Christopher M.

• ISBN13: 9780809140282
• ISBN10: 0809140284
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Paulist Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(1)
The Need for Reform	1	(2)
A Brief History of the Study of Reform	3	(3)
The Vocabulary of Reform	6	(4)
Reform Language in Church Councils	10	(5)
Principles of Reform	15	(3)
Notes	18	(5)
Patristic Period and Carolingian Renaissance	23	(24)
The Patristic Period	23	(4)
Personal Reform and the Monastery	27	(8)
Carolingian Renaissance	35	(7)
Perspectives	42	(3)
Notes	45	(2)
The High Middle Ages, 1050--1300	47	(55)
Gregorian Revolution	48	(15)
Characteristics and Goals	48	(3)
Papal Monarchy and Reform	51	(6)
Canon Law: The Engine of the Gregorian Revolution	57	(2)
Reform Synods and Councils	59	(2)
Pastoral Considerations	61	(2)
Twelfth-Century Renaissance	63	(7)
Religious Orders and Reform	70	(20)
Cluny	71	(3)
Cistercians	74	(4)
Carthusians	78	(1)
Poor Men's Movement	79	(5)
Franciscans	84	(4)
Dominicans	88	(2)
Perspectives	90	(4)
Notes	94	(8)
From Avignon to Trent: The Era of Multiple Reforms	102	(63)
The Late Middle Ages (ca. 1300--1450)	105	(13)
Institutional Developments, Reform Failures	105	(7)
Popular Developments, Reform Progress	112	(6)
Protestant Reformations	118	(21)
Martin Luther	118	(9)
Jean Calvin	127	(6)
The English Reformations	133	(2)
Reforming the Protestant Reformations	135	(4)
Catholic Reformations	139	(14)
Erasmus	140	(3)
Four Abandoned Catholic Reforms	143	(6)
The Council of Trent	149	(4)
Perspectives	153	(4)
Notes	157	(8)
Catholic Reform in Changing Times	165	(32)
The Age of Trent	166	(11)
Popes and Bishops	166	(4)
Spanish Reformers	170	(4)
Priests, Nuns, and Laity	174	(3)
Encountering Modernity: 1700--1900	177	(15)
Romanticism	179	(5)
Social Catholicism	184	(3)
John Henry Newman	187	(2)
Modernism	189	(3)
Perspectives	192	(2)
Notes	194	(3)
Vatican II	197	(19)
The Gear-Up	198	(5)
Scholarship and Popular Devotions	198	(2)
Liturgical Renewal	200	(3)
The Council	203	(4)
The Fallout	207	(3)
Perspectives	210	(4)
Notes	214	(2)
Conclusions	216	(6)
Notes	222	(1)
For Further Reading	223	(8)
Index	231