V. Balance and Imbalance: The Papacy and the Contested Legacies of the Vatican Councils

Toward the end of his magisterial study of Catholic ecclesiological struggles spanning 1300 to 1870 CE, Francis Oakley employed a striking image to illustrate the victory of papalism over conciliarism. After Vatican I, the “solitary horseman” left on a desolate “ecclesiological battlefield” many cen...

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Main Author: Blanchard, Shaun 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2020]
In: Horizons
Year: 2020, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 133-138
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KCC Councils
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBN Ecclesiology
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Summary:Toward the end of his magisterial study of Catholic ecclesiological struggles spanning 1300 to 1870 CE, Francis Oakley employed a striking image to illustrate the victory of papalism over conciliarism. After Vatican I, the “solitary horseman” left on a desolate “ecclesiological battlefield” many centuries in the making was “none other than the resilient ghost of Bellarmine.” By this image, Oakley meant that Pastor Aeternus’ twin definitions of papal infallibility and jurisdictional supremacy represented the definitive triumph of the ultramontane school, as typified by the counter-reformation Jesuit Cardinal Robert Bellarmine. For Oakley—and in this point he echoed a common interpretation—Vatican I consigned conciliar and constitutionalist Catholic ecclesiologies to “oblivion.”
ISSN:2050-8557
Contains:Enthalten in: Horizons
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/hor.2020.47