The Spirit of the CounterReformation Author:H. Outram Evennett This book, based on Evennett's Birkbeck Lectures of 1951, represents some twenty years' work on the sources of the Counter-Reformation. He isolate the special and positive characteristics of the Counter-Reformation and accounts for them in relation to the environment in which they developed. He sees in the sprit of it the attempt not to check ... more »but to extend and come to terms with the more individualistic and modern environment in which the Catholic Church found itself. The Jesuits are treated as agents of this change.« less