New publications on the History of the Church Councils

Published Annales Theologici 32/2 (2022), a monographic issue on the topic of synodality 


New publications on the History of the Church Councils

Nelson H. Minnich (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2023. 358 pp. ISBN: 9781108741392

 

The Council of Trent was a major event in the history of Christianity. It shaped Roman Catholicism's doctrine and practice for the next four hundred years and continues to do so today. The literature on the Council is vast and in numerous languages. This Companion, written  by an international group of leading researchers, brings together the latest scholarship on the principal issues treated at the Council: the relationship between Scripture and Tradition, original sin, justification, the  sacraments (Baptism, Penance, Confirmation, Eucharist, Holy Orders, Marriage, and the Annointing of the Sick), sacred images, sacred music, and its reform of religious orders, the training of the  clergy, the provision of pastoral care in the parish setting, and the implementation of its decrees. The volume demonstrates that the Council unwittingly furthered the papal centralization of authority by allowing the interpretation of its decrees to be the exclusive prerogative of the Holy See, and entrusting it with their implementation

(from the publisher's information).


New publications on the History of the Church Councils

Krafl, Pavel, Dvě studie k synodálnímu zákonodárství (Two studies on synodal legislation): Würzburg 1287, Kališ 142, Nitra: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa 2021. 120 pp.


New publications on the History of the Church Councils

Études Roussillonnaises XXVII : Sur les pas de Benoît XIII, édition des Actes du concile de Perpignan (15 novembre 1408-26 mars 1409). Barbara von Langen Monheim et Hélène Millet avec la collaboration de Monique Hincker et Monique Paulmier-Foucart. 278 pp.

 

The title of this publication deserves some explanation. The subtile, Édition des Actes du concile de Perpignan, indicates the nature of the document which is published here in full. But it says nothing about its content or what it reveals: the personality of a pope who marked his time, that of the Great Western Schism. Under its administrative cover, the document is in fact more than eighty per cent narrative: it leads the reader into the footsteps of Benedict XIII.

Like all medieval ecclesiastical documents, the Acts of the Council of Perpignan are written in Latin. Because of their exceptional interest, the editors did not want to restrict their reading to specialists: a partial translation into French, interspersed with summaries, accompanies the edition from beginning to end. A long introduction provides the information necessary for a good understanding.


New publications on the History of the Church Councils

Klaus Schatz, Kirche der Einheit und der Reform. Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Ersten Vatikanischen Konzil und zum päpstlichen Primat, Münster: Aschendorff Verlag 2023 (= Studien zur Geschichte von Konzilien - Studies on the History of Councils, herausgegeben im Auftrag der Gesellschaft für Konziliengeschichte von Johannes Grohe und Thomas Prügl, Bd. 1). X + 429 pp.

 

This volume collects essays by the author that have appeared in various places and revolve around Vatican Council I, papal primacy and infallibility. In addition to the "unfinished" projects of the Council, the analysis of its central discussions is discussed, as well as the role and positions of some of its most prominent actors, and last but not least, further perspectives on the historical role and future viability of the Roman primacy. In this way, the publication aims to make a contribution both to further historical research on the Council of 1869/70 and to the ecclesiological discussion on primacy, for which, to speak with Ignaz von Döllinger, the synopsis of the "systematic" and the "historical eye" is particularly necessary (publisher's information).


Pope Francis receives a copy of the Annales Historiae Conciliorum

Synodality in past and present

During an audience for the participants of the Congresso Tomistico Internazionale, Thomas Prügl was able to present Pope Francis a copy of the journal Annales Historiae Conciliorum. Research about the history of councils is more topical than ever and is of great interest to the Pope, as he sees synodality as a constitutive dimension of the Church.  


Conferences about Synodality at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

La Sinodalità della Chiesa

Here you find the program of the conferences