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Article: The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870.(Book review)
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- Church History
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- September 1, 2007
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The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870. By Francis Oakley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 298 pp. $125.00 cloth.
For decades two scholars have stood out, and not just in the English-speaking world, in illuminating the conciliarist tradition--Brian Tierney and Francis Oakley. It is a pleasure then to have this latest contribution by Professor Oakley as he looks back over close to six centuries and the almost forgotten importance of that tradition in the Catholic Church from Boniface VIII to Vatican I. If the opponents of the conciliar tradition preferred to bury that story rather than confront it, Oakley shows ...