Petri Privilegium/II

by Henry Edward Manning

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THE ŒCUMENICAL COUNCIL

AND THE

INFALLIBILITY OF THE ROMAN PONTIFF:

 

 

 

A PASTORAL LETTER TO THE CLERGY

 

&c.

 

 

 

BY

HENRY EDWARD

ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1869.

 

 

 

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Effect of the Council already felt in England and in France, p. 5.

 

CHAPTER II.

On the opportuneness of defining the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff, p. 25.

Reasons against the definition, 28; Answers to reasons against the definition, 33; Reasons for the definition, 38.

 

CHAPTER III.

Tradition of the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff, p. 58.

Statement of the doctrine, 58.

1. Tradition from the Council of Constance to the Council of Chalcedon, 70.

Gerson, 70; Bishops of France, 71; University of Paris, 72; Stephen, Bishop of Paris, 73; Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury, 73; Clement VI., 74; S. Thomas, 74; S. Bonaventure, 75; Council of Lyons, 75; S. Thomas of Canterbury, 77; S. Anselm, 77; S. Bernard, 78; Anselm of Havelburgh, 78; Synod of Quedlinburgh, 80; Council of Rome, 81; Eighth General Council, 81; Alcuin and Caroline Books, 81; Bishops of Africa, 83; Sixth General Council, 84; Formula of Hormisdas, 85; S. Leo, and Council of Chalcedon, 87.

2. Tradition from the Council of Constance to 1682, 93.

Opinions of Gerson, 96; Condemnation of Peter de Osma, 99; Faculty of Louvain, 99; Clergy of France, 101.

3. First formal enunciation of Gallicanism, 107.

Assembly of 1682, 107; Nomination by the King, 109; Resistance of the Sorbonne and other Faculties to the Four Articles, 110.

 

CHAPTER IV.

Two effects of the Council certain, p. 124.

Effect on the evidence and proposition of the Faith, 124; and on the relations of the Civil Governments to the Church, 127.

 

Postscript.⁠Monseigneur Maret, 'Du Concile Général et de la Paix Religieuse,' p. 139.