I've been digging back, fairly superficially thus far, through church history and trying to find more around the defining moments that changed doctrine, the episcopacy, etc. Pulling on that thread led me to the Council of Basel/Constance that advanced settlement of the Western Schism.
I found the article below very interesting with the implications of authoritativeness of councils and Papal supremacy. It's an issue I think I have seen alluded to here, but had not seen discussed in any depth. I imagine the Eastern Orthodox churches saying something along the lines of, "welcome to the 11th century, chimp, pull up a chair we have a few opinions on such things".
If there is an honest rebuttal to be made to this article, I'd love to read it too. A cursory search finds some polemics not at all addressing the thrust of the article.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/authoritative-ignored
I found the article below very interesting with the implications of authoritativeness of councils and Papal supremacy. It's an issue I think I have seen alluded to here, but had not seen discussed in any depth. I imagine the Eastern Orthodox churches saying something along the lines of, "welcome to the 11th century, chimp, pull up a chair we have a few opinions on such things".
Quote:
In all of this, along with a degree of casual institutional forgetfulness, we see the working of an active institutional politics of oblivion. "He who controls the past controls the future," George Orwell wrote in 1984, and "he who controls the present controls the past." And the past certainly has been controlled in the case of Constancesucked, as it were, into an Orwellian memory hole. To rescue that ecclesiological past from the long, coercive shadow cast backward by Vatican I, is to discover that the conciliarist constitutionalism expressed in Haec Sancta in fact enjoyed a good deal of life during the centuries following Constance.
If there is an honest rebuttal to be made to this article, I'd love to read it too. A cursory search finds some polemics not at all addressing the thrust of the article.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/authoritative-ignored