New publications on the History of the Church Councils

Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche, Un concilio di oggi. Memoria, recezione e presente del Concilio di Firenze (1439-2019), a cura di Riccardo Burigana e Pierantonio Piatti, Libreria Editrice Vaticana: Citta del Vaticano 2023. 410 pp.

 

The Council of Florence, in the history of the Church, constitutes an event in which Christians were able to meet to reflect together on the Church and its mission, in a perspective of unity into which the different traditions could converge, without losing sight of their own theological, spiritual, liturgical and faith experience identities. During the days of the Council‘s celebration, as on other occasions in its history, Florence was the capital of dialogue, where in listening to the word of God, Christians, who had come here from a thousand different routes, from Constantinople, Armenia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France and Spain, found a 'home' to overcome differences and prejudices and to cultivate hopes and knowledge, discovering a spiritual communion with which to face the challenges of the world (from the publisher's information).


Boris Ulianich † (1925-2023)

Boris Ulianich died in Naples on 31 March at the ripe old age of 98.


New publications on the History of the Church Councils

Published Annales Historiae Conciliorum 51/2 (2021)

Index 


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.