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Zusatztext The ideas discussed in this book are old! but of enormous contemporary relevance. Klappentext In the early fifteenth century! the general council assembled at Constance and! representing the universal Church! put an end to the scandalous schism which for almost forty years had divided the Latin Church between rival lines of claimants to the papal office. It did so by claiming and exercising an authority superior to that of the pope! an authority by virtue of which it could impose constitutional limits on the exercise of his prerogatives! stand in judgment over him! and if need be! depose him for wrongdoing. In so acting the council gave historic expression to a tradition of conciliarist constitutionalism which long competed for the allegiance of Catholics worldwide with the high papalist monarchical vision that was destined to triumph in 1870 at Vatican I and to become identified with Roman Catholic orthodoxy itself. This book sets out to reconstruct the half-millennial history of that vanquished rival tradition. Zusammenfassung In 1870 the First Vatican Council vindicated the old Roman vision of an essentially unlimited monarchical authority residing in the pope, thus vanquishing an even older, conciliar, essentially constitutionalist ideal of church governance. This book reconstructs the half-millennial history of that rival and now largely forgotten tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
