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  • noun A believer in conciliarism; someone who thinks the highest authority of the Church is found in ecclesiastical councils.

Etymologies

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From conciliar +‎ -ist.

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Examples

  • John McFarland asked me: "am I correct in suspecting that your communion with the Pope doesn't involve your recognizing his doctrinal and disciplinary primacy -- that is, is it conciliarist communio: union without faith or obedience?"

    The return of the Sedia Gestatoria? 2009

  • So, Iakovos: am I correct in suspecting that your communion with the Pope doesn't involve your recognizing his doctrinal and disciplinary primacy -- that is, is it conciliarist communio: union without faith or obedience?

    The return of the Sedia Gestatoria? 2009

  • This was the last chance to reform Catholicism from within along conciliarist lines.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The final section of the volume ends with a bull Nicholas drafted for Pope Pius II Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, a fellow ex-conciliarist on reform of the Church in its head and members.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Ordained sometime during the 1430s, Nicholas first gained wider notice for his work as a conciliarist at the Council of Basel.

    Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

  • The Council of Constance had deposed the schismatic Pope who convened it, and defined the conciliarist thesis that a general council was the supreme body in the Church, which popes must obey.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • There were a number of strands in conciliarist thought.

    Medieval Political Philosophy Kilcullen, John 2006

  • The Great Schism was for practical purposes healed and a new pope, Martin V (1417-31), was appointed — a man who, once in authority, opposed the conciliarist ideas then prevalent.

    CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • This is the response of a Cajetan to the powderkeg of conciliarist criticism that the pope was trying to sink the ship of the Church and had to be removed for the good of the Church - "All we can do is pray that God will make the bad pope go away before he sinks the ship."

    Biblical Evidence for Catholicism 2008

  • 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

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