After 1682 – The real crisis begins ?
From the Council of Constance to the eighteenth century, the early modern period witnessed the development of gallican ideas (les "Maximes" de Paris, roughly) on the one hand, and of papal claims to both ecclesiastical and temporal authority, especially to censure and depose secular prince...
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| Language: | French |
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Société internationale de droit canonique et de législations religieuses comparées
2018
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L' année canonique
Year: 2018, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 55-63 |
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| Summary: | From the Council of Constance to the eighteenth century, the early modern period witnessed the development of gallican ideas (les "Maximes" de Paris, roughly) on the one hand, and of papal claims to both ecclesiastical and temporal authority, especially to censure and depose secular princes, on the other hand. Since these developments were simultaneous and mutually interactive, occasions for conflict and confrontation were inevitable. The origins of the concordat of Bologna itself lay in such clashes that followed the Great Schism. Nevertheless, truly major conflicts were relatively infrequent, since both sides - in this context, the French monarchy and French church on the one hand, and the papacy on the other - fundamentally accepted, despite their differences and numerous misunderstandings of each other, that they needed one another. As a consequence, moments of real danger, such as the régale crisis, were the exception, not the rule.Most people with a general rather than specialised knowledge of the political and religious history of the reign of Louis XIV tend to believe that the régale crisis of the late 1670s ended in a great victory over the papacy which is exemplified by the four gallican articles of 1682. This triumphalist vision of the conflict is due in part to the skill with which Bossuet revised the earlier drafts of the gallican articles in such a way as to make them seem both less aggressively gallican and more sensitive towards the universal character of the church… |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: L' année canonique
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3917/cano.059.0055 |