The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870

by Francis Oakley

Overview

This book is about the fundamental constitution of the Catholic Church. In 1870 the First Vatican Council vindicated the old Roman vision of an essentially unlimited monarchical authority residing in the pope. That vision had competed for the allegiance of Catholics worldwide with an even older, conciliar, essentially constitutionalist ideal of church governance. Francis Oakley here reconstructs the half-millennial history of that rival and now largely forgotten tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199265282
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/12/2004
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Interim President of the American Council of Learned Societies and President Emeritus

Table of Contents

Prologue: Memory, Authority, and Oblivion1. Christendom's Crisis: The Great Schism, the Conciliar Movement, and the Era of Councils from Pisa to Trent2. Gerson's Hope: Fifteenth-Century Conciliarism and its Roots3. Cajetan's Conundrum: Alemain, Mair, the Divines of Paris, and their English Sympathizers4. Bellarmine's Nightmare: From James I, Sarpi, and Richer to Bossuet, Tournely, and the Gallican Orthodoxy5. De Maistre's Denial: Febronius, De Maistre, Maret, and the Triumph of Ultramontanism6. Democritus's Dreame: Conciliarism in the History of Political ThoughtEpilogue: Unfinished Business, Trailing EndsBibliographyIndex