Conciliarism and Papalism
Almost on the eve of the sixteenth-century Reformation, the long-running debate over the respective authority of popes and councils in the Catholic Church was vigorously resumed. This book offers the first English translation of four major contributions to that debate. These complex arguments are fundamental for any society under government, whether church or state, and even on the threshold of the twenty-first century the concerns that underlie and animate these scholastic disputations continue to retain their force.
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Conciliarism and Papalism
Almost on the eve of the sixteenth-century Reformation, the long-running debate over the respective authority of popes and councils in the Catholic Church was vigorously resumed. This book offers the first English translation of four major contributions to that debate. These complex arguments are fundamental for any society under government, whether church or state, and even on the threshold of the twenty-first century the concerns that underlie and animate these scholastic disputations continue to retain their force.
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Conciliarism and Papalism

Conciliarism and Papalism

Conciliarism and Papalism

Conciliarism and Papalism

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Almost on the eve of the sixteenth-century Reformation, the long-running debate over the respective authority of popes and councils in the Catholic Church was vigorously resumed. This book offers the first English translation of four major contributions to that debate. These complex arguments are fundamental for any society under government, whether church or state, and even on the threshold of the twenty-first century the concerns that underlie and animate these scholastic disputations continue to retain their force.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521476744
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/04/1997
Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 354
Product dimensions: 5.47(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Editors' note; Introduction; A note on terms; Chronology; Abbreviations; Bibliography; 1. On the comparison of the authority of pope and council; 2. A book concerning the authority of the Church; 3. The apology of Brother Thomas de Vio of Gaeta, master general of the Order of Preachers, concerning the authority of the pope compared with that of the council, to the most reverend Niccolo Fieschi, well-deserving cardinal of the Holy Roman Church; 4. A disputation concerning the authority of the council over the supreme pontiff.
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