The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199265282)

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.

Author: Francis Oakley
ISBN-10: 0199265283
ISBN-13: 9780199265282
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2004
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Commonweal 03/12/2004 pg. 20