ABSTRACT
THE doldrums in which the idea of progress lay during the Renaissance began to disappear amid the gathering winds and currents of doctrine in the Reformation. Whatever else the Reformation may be in historical scholarship, it is one of the major religious awakenings in history. If our minds tend to think first of the Protestant manifestations of this resurgence of Christian commitment, similar manifestations of the Roman Catholic Church should not be left out of our considerations. The great schism led to rich intellectual contributions from Catholic as well as Protestant circles.
