Conciliarist Tradition : Constitutionalism In The Catholic Church 1300-1870

Table Of Contents
Prologue: Memory, Authority, And Oblivion
1. Christendom’s Crisis: The Great Schism, The Conciliar Movement, And The Era Of Councils From Pisa To Trent
2. Gerson’s Hope: Fifteenth-Century Conciliarism And Its Roots
3. Cajetan’s Conundrum: Alemain, Mair, The Divines Of Paris, And Their English Sympathizers
4. Bellarmine’s Nightmare: From James I, Sarpi, And Richer To Bossuet, Tournely, And The Gallican Orthodoxy
5. De Maistre’s Denial: Febronius, De Maistre, Maret, And The Triumph Of Ultramontanism 6. Democritus’s Dreame: Conciliarism In The History Of Political Thought
Epilogue: Unfinished Business, Trailing Ends
Bibliography
Index

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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.