The Council of Trent
Worth knowing
- The Roman Catholic council that met in three periods between 1545 and 1563 to answer the Reformation.
- Its decree on justification (1547) rejected justification by faith alone.
- It also abolished the selling of indulgences, required bishops to live in their dioceses, and ordered seminaries to train priests.
In Scholar’s Dream, the Council of Trent has one book
Passages you can read in the game
Longer excerpts the Scriptorium holds on screen for a player to sit and read, word for word.
from The Canons of Trent“If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified, in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will: let him be anathema.”
Council of Trent, Session VI (1547), Canon IX, trans. Waterworth 1848, in Schaff, Creeds of Christendom II (1877), public domain.
from The Canons of Trent“If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost… and is inherent in them… let him be anathema.”
Council of Trent, Session VI (1547), Canon XI, trans. Waterworth 1848, in Schaff, Creeds of Christendom II (1877), public domain. The ellipses skip the Latin, which this edition prints inside the English sentence.
from The Canons of Trent“If any one saith, that it is necessary for every one, for the obtaining the remission of sins, that he believe for certain, and without any wavering arising from his own infirmity and indisposition, that his sins are forgiven him: let him be anathema.”
Council of Trent, Session VI (1547), Canon XIII, trans. Waterworth 1848, in Schaff, Creeds of Christendom II (1877), public domain.
from The Canons of Trent“I acknowledge the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church for the mother and mistress of all churches; and I promise and swear true obedience to the Bishop of Rome, successor to St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ.”
The Profession of the Tridentine Faith (1564), Article X, in Schaff, Creeds of Christendom II (1877), public domain.
Who else was alive
The Council of Trent against everyone else in the game.