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

by Francis Oakley (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $57.89

  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.