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104 Ecclesiology © The Continuum Publishing Group Ltd 2004. Article Review The Conciliar Tradition in the Western Church, from the Eve of the Great Schism to the Vatican Councils PAUL AVIS Francis Oakley, The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300–1870 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), xi + 298 pp. ISBN 0–19–926528–3 (hbk). £50.00. T he ideas discussed in this book, though very old, are enormously relevant to the churches at this point in their fortunes. Francis Oakley has produced a series of books and research articles about conciliarism, both its history and its political philosophy, over the past forty years, since Vatican II in fact. Here he harvests and distils his life’s work. He believes that the Roman Catholic Church needs to rediscover, to re-appropriate the conciliar tradition – a part of its history that it has suppressed for centuries (he dubs this ‘the repression of memory and the pursuit of the politics of oblivion’) – in order to reform its practice of authority. In particular, conciliar principles can counteract Vatican centralization under the monarchical papacy of modern times. But to raise the subject of the conciliar movement does not make for polite conversation in the
Ecclesiology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2004
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