Conciliarism and Papalism

by Edited by J. H. Burns , Thomas Izbicki

• ISBN13: 9780521476744
• ISBN10: 0521476747
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Almost on the eve of the sixteenth-century Reformation, the long-running debate over the respective authority of popes and councils in the Catholic Church was vigorously resumed. This book offers the first English translation of four major contributions to that debate. These complex arguments are fundamental for any society under government, whether church or state, and even on the threshold of the twenty-first century the concerns that underlie and animate these scholastic disputations continue to retain their force.

Table of Contents

Editors' note

Introduction

A note on terms

Chronology

Abbreviations

Bibliography

1. On the comparison of the authority of pope and council

2. A book concerning the authority of the Church

3. The apology of Brother Thomas de Vio of Gaeta, master general of the Order of Preachers, concerning the authority of the pope compared with that of the council, to the most reverend Niccolo Fieschi, well-deserving cardinal of the Holy Roman Church

4. A disputation concerning the authority of the council over the supreme pontiff.