conciliarism

In Catholicism, "conciliarism" refers to a specific heresy.

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First of all, "conciliarism" has never triumphed, but was decisively vanquished in the 1400s.

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It is clearly about those within the fold, not about those outside it, and was never read in any other sense until the triumph of conciliarism.

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It is clearly about those within the fold, not about those outside it, and was never read in any other sense until the triumph of conciliarism.

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In 1433 he wrote his major work on church government, The Catholic Concordance, a manifesto of conciliarism.

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Later Popes (though they owed their position to Constance) opposed conciliarism, at least in its more radical form, and warned secular rulers that conciliarist ideas also threatened the power of kings ” they were aware of the analogy between conciliarist views of church government and anti-monarchical views of secular government.

Medieval Political Philosophy Kilcullen, John 2006