Council of Trent on Election & predestination

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THE POSITION

Trent speaks of predestination but does not say on what basis God chooses. Chapter 12 of the decree on justification warns that no one should presume to know, without a special revelation, that they are among the predestined. Canon 17 closes one door: it condemns the view that grace is given only to the predestined to life while the rest are "by the divine power, predestined unto evil." Between free choice and foreseen faith as the ground of election, the council does not decide, and the Catholic schools went on differing after it.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Met in twenty-five sessions over three periods, at Trento in northern Italy except for two sessions held at Bologna in 1547. Called by Paul III and closed under Pius IV. It answered the Reformation point by point: Scripture and tradition, the canon, original sin, justification and the seven sacraments. From the Sixth Session on, each subject is set out in chapters and then in canons ending "let him be anathema." The Catholic Church counts it the nineteenth ecumenical council; the Orthodox and Protestant churches do not count it as ecumenical. Read here in J. Waterworth's 1848 translation.