The church, the councils, & reform : the legacy of the fifteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Christianson, Gerald, Izbicki, Thomas M., Bellitto, Christopher M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The conciliar tradition and ecumenical dialogue / Gerald Christianson
  • Historical perspectives
  • Introduction / Thomas M. Izbicki
  • Councils of the Catholic Reformation : a historical survey / Nelson H. Minnich
  • Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and the histories of the Council of Basel / Emily O'Brien
  • The conciliar heritage and the politics of oblivion / Francis Oakley
  • Sources
  • Introduction / Thomas M. Izbicki
  • God's divine law : the scriptural founts of conciliar theory in Jean Gerson / David Zachariah Flanagin
  • Three ways to read the constance decree Haec sancta (1415) : Francis Zabarella, Jean Gerson, and the traditional papal view of general councils / Michiel Decaluwe
  • The councils and the Holy Spirit : liturgical perspectives / Natacha-Ingrid Tinteroff
  • From conciliar unity to mystical union : the relationship between Nicholas of Cusa's Catholic concordance and On learned ignorance / Jovino Miroy
  • Challenges
  • Introduction / Thomas M. Izbicki
  • Pope Eugenius IV, the conciliar movement, and the primacy of Rome / Grimichi Watanabe
  • Angelo da Vallombrosa and the Pisan schism / J.H. Burns
  • A conciliarist's opposition to a popular Marian devotion / Jesse D. Mann
  • Applications
  • Introduction / Thomas M. Izbicki
  • The electoral systems of Nicholas of Cusa in the Catholic concordance and beyond / Günter Hägele and Friedrich Pukelsheim
  • Conciliarism at the local level : Florence's clerical corporation in the early fifteenth century / David S. Peterson
  • The conciliar church / Giuseppe Alberigo
  • Councils and reform : challenging misconceptions / Christopher M. Bellitto
  • Afterword: Reflections on a half century of conciliar studies / Brian Tierney.