NOUN
- a council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 to examine and condemn the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers; redefined the Roman Catholic doctrine and abolished various ecclesiastical abuses and strengthened the papacy
How To Use Council of Trent In A Sentence
- Historically, orders of friars could not own property, and individual friars were beggars hence the term mendicant, although this was changed insofar as the orders were concerned by the Council of Trent. No Uncertain Terms
- In the important second chapter dealing with the Council of Trent and the popes contemporary with it, the stress is laid again on the importance of binding tradition.
- At the parish level, the fear of schism ensured that the church remained a militant one, committed to the policies of Catholic reform first promulgated by the council of Trent.
- The Council of Trent was the 18th oecumenical council of the Church, assembled at Trent, a town in the Austrian Tyrol, and sat, with certain interruptions, from December 13, 1545, until December 4, The Philippine Islands
- Rather, it seems to me that the WCF is setting itself against its understanding of the Council of Trent and certain sorts of Roman Catholic claims for the uniquely "authentical" character of the Latin Vulgate. Sacra doctrina
- Council of Trent has refrained from applying the term habitus to sanctifying grace. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- The Council of Trent (Sess. xxv, cap. 7, de regular. et monial.) fixed forty years complete and eight years after her profession for an abbess, mother general, or prioress of any religious order of nuns. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- Council of Trent, which is an authoritative exposition of Romanist theology, we read that the "identical body" shall be restored, though "without deformities or superfluities;" restored that "as it was a partner in the man's deeds, so it may be a partner in his punishments. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
- The Council of Trent was the first to apply the term indiscriminately to rulings concerning faith and discipline (decreta de fide, de reformatione). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- Pallavicino's History of the Council of Trent was the principal work on this important ecclesiastical assembly. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
