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Article: The Conciliarist Tradition. Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- October 1, 2005
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General and Miscellaneous The Conciliarist Tradition. Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870. By Francis Oakley. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 298. $95.00.)
In 1969 a brilliant young medievalist published a short book very much in the spirit of the times: Council over Pope? Towards a provisional ecclesiology. In it Francis Oakley then an associate professor of history at Williams College, advocated a revival of the conciliar model of the Church that had been constructed as a response and solution to the Great Western Schism. This was not the first time that an attempt was made to correct the growth of papal centralizing authority with an appeal to the ...