REFORMATION IN 1517 AND TODAY

CONSIDERATIONS FROM TRENT AND VATICAN II

Authors

  • NORMAN TANNER DHARMARAM VIDHYA KSHETHRAM (DVK)

Keywords:

CATHOLIC CHURC, PROTESTANT CHURCH, ECUMENISM, REFORMATION

Abstract

Marking the fifth centenary of the beginning of the Reformation in
1517, this article considers the impact of the two most important
councils of the Catholic Church which followed — Trent (1545-63) and
Vatican II (1962-5) — upon Catholic-Protestant relations as well as
upon world history. Trent’s wide-ranging decrees tackled most major
issues raised by the Protestant reformation, yet the council listened to
Protestant concerns more than that is usually recognized. The decrees
of Vatican II were also wide-ranging, though with a different tone to
Trent. They led to a new epoch in relations between the Catholic
Church and the Churches of the Reformation as well as between
Christianity and the wider world.

Author Biography

NORMAN TANNER, DHARMARAM VIDHYA KSHETHRAM (DVK)

Norman Tanner, SJ was member of History Faculty (1986-2003), member of
Theology Faculty (1989-2003) and University Research Lecturer (1997-2003) of Oxford
University, and Tutor in Church History (1978-2003), Prefect of Studies/Senior Tutor
(1981-97) and Librarian (1981-2003) at Campion Hall (Hall of Oxford University). He
was Lecturer (part-time) in Church History (1982-2003) at Heythrop College, London
University. From 2003 to 2013 he was Professor (Ordinarius) at the Gregorian
University, Rome, from 2009 to 2012 the dean of the Faculty of Church History. In
2015 he moved from Rome to become a member of the Jesuit community in
Bournemouth, England. He is a leading authority on the ecumenical/general
councils of the Church (Nicea I, 325, to Vatican II, 1962-5), scholar of the medieval
Church and scholar in various other topics, mainly in Church History. His main
publications include Heresy Trials in the Diocese of Norwich, 1428-31 (1977), The Church
in Late Medieval Norwich 1370-1532 (1984), Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, ed.
(1990), The Councils of the Church: A Short History (2001), Is the Church too Asian?
Reflections on the Ecumenical Councils (2002), Was the Church too Democratic? Councils,
Collegiality and the Church’s Future (2003), The Church in Council: Conciliar Movements,
Religious Practice and the Papacy from Nicaea to Vatican II (2011) and New Short History
of the Catholic Church (2011) and many research articles. Email: tanner@unigre.it

References

The 2017 edition of the Vatican year-book, AnnuarioPontificio.
Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, ed. N. Tanner, London and Washington: Sheed & Ward, Georgetown University Press, 1990.
H. Denzinger and P. Hünermann, ed., Enchiridion symbolorum definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum: Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and
Declarations on Matters of Faith and Moral, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012
Decrees, 776-84: p. 781, canon 16, for the Society of Jesus.
Journal of a Soul, translated by D. White, London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1965, 181 (29 April 1903).

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Published

2017-06-30

How to Cite

TANNER, N. (2017). REFORMATION IN 1517 AND TODAY: CONSIDERATIONS FROM TRENT AND VATICAN II. Asian Horizons, 11(02), 262–282. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2511

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 02 (2017): ASIAN HORIZONS

Section

Articles