The German Nation and Martin Luther

Abstract

is commendable.One understands more readily how Trent developed its rigorism when Di Nugent indicates how similar intractable and triumphalist views were spawned at Poissy.I is probable that with the spectre of Philip II's Spanish Catholic power in the background, any accommodation made for the Reformers at Poissy would only have been made at the price of further schism.The "Hispancization of Roman Catholicism" was clearly recognizi at Poissy, and as the days went by the irenicists lost any hope that the synod might tran-