The literature of the conciliar period, covering the first half of the fifteenth century, does not succeed in casting off the spell of the papal idea, but aims to check and control its dangers to the public welfare.
The papal system, having come victorious out of the struggle with the conciliar movement of the fifteenth century, seemed to control without resistance every current of ecclesiastical life and thought.
Febronianism was an attempted revival of the conciliar movement of the fifteenth century and closely resembled "Gallicanism," as the movement in favor of the "Liberties of the Gallican Church" was called.
It was a master-stroke of policy on the part of Constantine to use the Church’s conciliar system on an enlarged scale to bring about this unity.
The conciliar system was carried to its logical completion in the ecumenical council representing the entire Church and standing at the head of a system which included the provincial and patriarchal councils, at least in theory.
Monotheletism, furthermore, was too strongly intrenched in the East to be removed by a single conciliar action.
It also laid the foundations of the conciliar system, and the bonds of corporate unity between the scattered communities of the Church were defined and recognized.
The West has never accepted this opinion and has only to a limited extent admitted the authority of its canons, though some have been current in the West because, like much conciliar action, they were re-enactments of older canons.
Having secured a preponderance in the kingdom, they proceeded to quarrel among themselves, since the inevitable result of conciliar government was at this time civil war.
Bedford saw thatconciliar government was not what the country needed, and while respecting the feelings of Councillors, he insisted on a preponderance for himself in the councils of the nation.
He was evidently interested in the conciliar movement, for among his books was a volume containing records of all the doings, both public and secret, at the Council of Constance.
At no time were the fathers so assiduously engaged in the deep study of the matters before them, or more earnestly occupied with their conciliar labors.
This contained many forged letters of the early popes and other forged matter, including the Epistle or "Donation" of Constantine; also genuine papal letters and conciliar decrees.
The decisions of the popes also had been collected, and then were joined to conciliar compilations and arranged after the same topical plan.
No such synod is contained in the conciliar collections.
Renaissance and Reformation combined to complete the fall which the failure of Sigismund to guide the conciliar movement had already foreshadowed.
The same universal aspect appeared once more in the age of the conciliar movement, at the beginning of the 15th century.
In the age of the conciliar movement, when men of liberal temperament were urging that the Pope was subject to a general council, William Lyndwood evidenced nothing but "a conservative curialism.
He quotes the canons and conciliar decrees to show that recanting heretics are to be immured for life, whence he argues that the prison should be afflictive and penal.
In 1438 a deputation from the Council waited upon the king and laid before him the conciliar plans of reform.
This Pragmatic Sanction embodied most of the cherishedconciliar plans of reform.
Learned ecclesiastical Jurists had sought to bring it about in the fifteenth century by what was called Conciliar Reform.
While churchmen directed the councils of the nation, the conciliar action of the Church ceased altogether.
While the decrees of ancient Popes and councils were cited as authorities for this measure, the act of the council, like all the conciliaracts of the reign, derived its force from the king's approval.
Throughout the period the unity of action of the Church and State is strongly marked; separate conciliar action became rare, and both spiritual and secular affairs were administered by statesmen-bishops.
Conciliar seminaries are treated in a document of two parts.
From statistical tables on file at present in the archives of Manila, the following facts concerning two of theseconciliar seminaries may be gathered.
The report submitted at the exposition of Amsterdam in 1883, says of these conciliar seminaries: ".
The first two of the extracts relate to the five Roman Catholic conciliar seminaries, and give their status since 1862.
And accordingly, with many Bishops, the wish to escape taking any part in these discussions may be father to the thought, and a speedy end of the Council may appear to them a sort of conciliar euthanasia.
From the intra-conciliar point of view it is easy to go too far.
But this is an unheard-of thing, against all conciliar usage and all natural right," reply the Bishops.
Many interpret this to mean that people must be prepared for a conciliar coup d'etat.
Guidi's speech still occupies men's minds, and forms the topic of conversation in conciliar circles.
Thirdly, the conclusion, which is meant to invest with conciliar authority the former dogmatic decrees of the Popes, has been accepted.
Their adversaries at once zealously availed themselves of this favourable crisis; nearly every Bishop of the minority was plied with various intermediate formulas and conciliar proposals.
The Bishops, however, experience no such joyful feeling, but say that the last vestige of conciliar freedom is now abolished.
This Conciliar organisation, thus adopted at Emden in 1569, might not have met with unanimous support had not the Reformed been exposed to the full fury of Alva's persecution.
It ought to be said, before describing the doctrinal labours of the Council, that the work done at Trent was not to give Conciliar sanction to the whole mass of mediaeval doctrinal tradition.
Nor need this be wondered at, for the Presbyterian or Conciliar is the revival of the government of the Church of the early centuries while still under the ban of the Roman Empire.
If he did he would then be left to face the European Roman Catholic Courts of Germany, France, and Spain--all of whom supported the conciliar view.
They were the heirs of the aspirations of the great conciliar leaders of the fifteenth century, such as Gerson, deeply religious men, who longed for a genuine revival of faith and love.
Thus the old conciliar conception, maintained at Constance and at Basel, faced the curial at Trent; and both were too powerful to give way entirely.
All conciliar and other injunctions for enclosure added a saving clause of "manifest necessity" and this gave an opening for an infinite variety of interpretation.
Footnote 48: Yet the Spanish bishops fought to the end, under the leadership of their chief Guerrero, for the principle of conciliar independence and the episcopal prerogatives.
Though the Spanish fathers held with the French and German on the points of episcopal independence and conciliar authority, they disagreed whenever it became a question of compromise with Protestants upon details of dogma or ritual.
Papal tyranny in the Church, had the effect of bringing the conciliar principle itself into disfavor with the European powers.
The result of this failure of theconciliar principle at Basel was that Nicholas V.
The common Protestant attitude toward synods is, however, that they may err and have erred, and that the Scriptures and not conciliar decisions are the sole infallible standard of faith, morals and worship.
This "conciliar theory," propounded by Conrad of Gelnhausen and championed by the great Parisian teachers Pierre d'Ailly and Gerson, proceeded from the nominalistic axiom that the whole is greater than its part.
The papal confirmation is indispensable; it is conceived of as the stamp without which the expression of conciliar opinion lacks legal validity.
He brings together in convenient form for reference a mass of extracts from the teachings of the Fathers, the papal and conciliar decrees, the utterances of the schoolmen, and other sources.
The development of the law of forbidden degrees, through the doctrines of the early Christian teachers and a long series of conciliar decrees, cannot here be described.
The history of mediaeval heresy takes us as far as the Conciliar movement.
Authority, whether papal, conciliar or academic, was itself wedded to one school of thought or another, swayed by the predominant philosophy of its own passing day.
Their heroic attempt to secure reform from within--made in the great Conciliar movement--definitely failed.
Bishop Pedro Gutierres de Cos, who founded the San Juan Conciliar Seminary in 1832, established a library in connection with it, the remains of which are still extant in the old seminary building, but much neglected and worm-eaten.
That city has, also, a conciliar seminary in charge of the Paulist fathers, and two hospitals subordinate to the miter.
By a general rule, the provisors of the respective dioceses are directors of the conciliar seminaries; but that is not the case with the provisor of this archbishopric, who is at present dean of the cathedral.
The ecclesiastical court resides in Vigan, where there is also a cathedral church; and a conciliar seminary which has been, until the present, directed by the religious of St. Augustine.
It has a cathedral and episcopal palace of stone, and a conciliar seminary for the secular clergy of the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conciliar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
