Western Civilization I / Unit 12 WC1 1119 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why Conciliarism Failed and What That Set Up
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The idea
Eugene IV reconfirmed papal absolutism against the Council of Basel about fourteen thirty-one, the anchor's date, and the contest ran to fourteen thirty-nine. Reform failed, and the anchor says the Church came to seem one more political institution, its authority undermined.
In practice
Inadvertently setting the stage for radical criticism, the anchor's phrase.
Where people slip
No one yet rejected the Church. That is unit 15.
Your place on the trail
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