Counter-Reformation
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See also: Counterreformation and Counter Reformation
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- (historical) A period of Roman Catholic revival that aimed to combat the Reformation.
- 2017, Anthony D. Wright, The Counter-Reformation: Catholic Europe and the Non-Christian World, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1:
- The Counter-Reformation was originally the creation of modern historians. The negative view, adopted by nineteenth-century German, and essentially Protestant, scholars, of those developments in Western Christendom which were opposed to the sixteenth-century Reformation, was characterized by the term ‘anti-Reformation’.
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period of Roman Catholic revival that aimed to combat the Reformation
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Further reading[edit]
- “Counter-Reformation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Counter-Reformation, Counterreformation at Google Ngram Viewer