Foundations of the Conciliar Theory : The Contribution of the Medieval Canonists from Gratian t...
ISBN: 9780521143684 | 0521143683
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 6/24/2010
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This book explores the canonistic theories especially with conciliar theory, of Church government formulated between Gratian's Decretum (c. 1140) and the Great Schism (1378). It is concerned with the juristic development of the fundamental conciliar doctrine, the assertion that the universal Church was superior to the Church of Rome, with a consequent denial of the Pope's supreme authority.
A major problem which occupied thinkers in the later Middle Ages was the question of the internal structure of the Church and ... MORE
A major problem which occupied thinkers in the later Middle Ages was the question of the internal structure of the Church and ... MORE
| Preface | |
| List of abbreviations | |
| Introductory: the conciliar theory and the Canonists | |
| Decretists Theories of Church Goverment | |
| Pope and Church | |
| Pope and general council | |
| Pope and Cardinals | |
| Aspects of Thirteenth-Century Ecclesiology | |
| Changing views of Church government | |
| The structure of a medieval ecclesiasti... MORE | |
| The whole church as corporation | |
| Conciliar Ideas in the Fourteenth Century | |
| John of Paris | |
| Conflicting criticisms of Papal monarchy | |
| The attitude of the academic Canonists | |
| Franciscus Zabarella | |
| Conclusion | |
| Appendices | |
| List of works cited | |
| Index | |
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