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

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

Francis Oakley

316 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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 alle...

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