Book VI. The Counter-Reformation

CHAPTER I.

The Necessity of a Reformation of some sort universally admitted.

Variety of complaints against the mediæval Church

Formation of local churches

CHAPTER II.

The Spanish Conception of a Reformation.

§ 1. The religious condition of Spain

§ 2. The reformation under Ximenes

§ 3. The Spaniards and Luther

§ 4. Pope Adrian VI. and the Spanish Reformation

CHAPTER III.

Italian liberal Roman Catholics and their Conception of a Reformation.

§ 1. The religious condition of Italy

§ 2. Italian Roman Catholic Reformers

§ 3. Cardinals Contarini and Caraffa

§ 4. The Conference at Regensburg

CHAPTER IV.

Ignatius Loyola and the Company of Jesus.

§ 1. At Manresa

§ 2. Ignatius at Paris. The ecclesiastical situation at Paris

§ 3. The Spiritual Exercises

§ 4. Ignatius in Italy

§ 5. The Society of Jesus

CHAPTER V.

The Council of Trent.

§ 1. The assembling of the Council

§ 2. Procedure at the Council

§ 3. Restatement of Doctrines

The Doctrine of the Rule of Faith

Original Sin and Justification

§ 4. The second meeting of the Council

§ 5. The third meeting of the Council

The position of the Pope strengthened

CHAPTER VI.

The Inquisition and the Index.

§ 1. The Inquisition in Spain

§ 2. The Inquisition in Italy

§ 3. The Index of prohibited books

§ 4. The Society of Jesus and the Counter-Reformation