Beyond the reformation? : authority, primacy and unity in the concillar tradition / / Paul Avis

• Autore: Avis Paul D. L.
• Pubblicazione: London : , : T & T Clark, , 2008
• Edizione: Paperback edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 262.8
• Soggetto topico: Church - Authority; Conciliar theory
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Originally published: 2006.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. THE CHURCH AS MYSTERY AND INSTITUTION; Institutions and their Ideology; The Mystical and the Institutional; Three Essential Elements and Three Phases of Development; A Protestant Parallel; Three Criteria of Ecclesial Integrity; Newman's Seminal Schema; Calvin and Anglicans on Christ's Triple Office; The Triple Office of the Church; An Anglican Alternative; The Conciliar Tradition, the Reformation and the 'Three Elements'; Newman and Historical Perspective; 2. MODELS OF AUTHORITY IN THE CHURCH; The Monarchical and Conciliar Paradigms ; The Monarchical ModelThe Emergence of the Papal Monarchy and the Longing for Reform; The Conciliar Model; 3. THE EMERGENCE OF MONARCHICAL AUTHORITY; Spiritual and Temporal; Early Foundations of Plenitude of Power; Gregory VII; Innocent III; 'Fullness of Power'; Boniface VIII; 4. PRECURSORS OF CONCILIARISM; The Ideological Background; Thomas Aquinas: Natural Law and the Common Good; Pre-conciliar Thought; John of Paris; Dante; Marsilius of Padua; William of Ockham; 5. WYCLIF AND HUS: SUBVERSIVE NON-CONCILIARISTS; Wyclif and Hus: Similarities and Differences; John Wyclif; Jan Hus ; 6. THE GREAT SCHISM OF THE WEST AND THE COUNCIL OF PISAThe Schism of 1378; The First Conciliar Theories; The Council of Pisa; Dietrich of Niem; Pierre d'Ailly; Jean Gerson's Early Conciliar Thought; Gerson and the Council of Pisa; 7. THE UNIFICATION OF THE CHURCH AND THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE; The Council of Constance; Gerson at Constance; Zabarella at Constance; The Contested Status of Haec Sancta; Assessment of Constance; 8. THE ECLIPSE OF CONCILIARISM AND THE COUNCIL OF BASEL; The Shaping of the Council; Nicholas of Cusa; Cusanus Changes Sides; The Post-Basel Eclipse of Conciliarism ; 9. THE LEGACY OF THE CONCILIAR MOVEMENTFrom the Council of Basel to the Reformation; Principles of Conciliar Thought; The Reformation as a Perpetuation of Conciliar Ideals by Non-ideal Means; 10.THE CONTINENTAL REFORMATION AND CONCILIAR THOUGHT; Martin Luther as Conciliarist?; Luther: The Two Kingdoms; Luther and Councils; John Calvin and Concliarism; Calvin on the Papacy; Zwingli and Bucer on Conciliarity; The Reformers and Natural Law; A Necessary Revisionism; Luther on Natural Law; Zwingli: Law and Natural Law; Melanchthon: Natural Law and Social Fabric ; Bucer: Natural Law and the Kingdom of GodCalvin: Natural Law and Equity; 11.CONCLIARITY IN THE ANGLICAN TRADITION; The English Reformers and Conciliar Ideas; A Modified Conciliarism; Natural Law and the English Reformation; Hooker as Constitutional Thinker; Hooker on Natural Law; Hooker: The Church as a Political Society; Hooker on General Councils; Richard Field on Councils; Lancelot Andrewes: Exponent of Conciliarism; William Laud's High Conciliarism; Herbert Thorndike: The Authority of Councils; William Palmer: Tractarian Conciliarism; Modern Anglican Views: Dixon, Creighton, Figgis ; 12.CONCILIARITY, PRIMACY AND UNITY IN THE WESTERN AND EASTERN CHURCHES
• Sommario/riassunto: Beyond the Reformation? sheds fresh light on divisive issues of authority in the Christian Church and puts them in a new historical and ecumenical perspective. Against the background of the perennial tension between the mystical and the institutional dynamics in the life of the Church, it goes beyond the tragic divisions of the Reformation era in two major ways. First, it examines the power struggles of the medieval period, the largely abortive attempts at reform, and the theological solutions to apparently intractable divisions that were proposed by the Conciliar Movement and enacted by the
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the reformation
• ISBN: 0-567-31704-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464285103321
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