Bronze-age conciliarism: Edmond Richer's encounters with Cajetan and Bellarmine

• Autores: Francis Oakley
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 20, Nº 1, 1999, págs. 65-86
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay focuses on the persistence of conciliarist constitutionalism down into the seventeenth century, and on the particular way in which the Gallican author, Edmond Richer (1559-1631), framed it in his sweeping and influential critiques of the papalist ecclesiology. In the tradition established by his fifteenth- and sixteenth-century predecessors in the Parisian theology faculty, Richer's formulation of conciliar theory was essentially political in nature. As a result, it lent itself readily to use in the cause of constitutionalist aspiration by such eighteenth-century critics of French monarchical policy as Nicolas Le Gros and Gabriel-Nicolas Maultrot.