Through the centuries, stories of popes and of the papacy from
Catholic and non-Catholic perspectives, presented as biographies or
as histories of an institution have boomed with the power of this
often controversial office.
Whether as liberating truth which comes forth from the Church or
as narrow perspective; whether as Rock of the Church" or
"stumbling-block," primacy remains a reality at the heart of many
ecclesiastical problems. Until now, a complete history of the
primacy has been missing. "Papal Primacy" fills the void by
providing a clear understanding of its history.
In this, the first complete history of the papal primacy, Schatz
traces the development of the idea of a papacy as center of
teaching and jurisdiction from its earliest Roman beginnings,
through centuries of development, the great papal schism and the
struggles over conciliarism and Galicanism, to the triumph of papal
authority at Vatican I and beyond that to Vatican II and the
growing realization that there are no "once and for al answers" to
the Church's questions. Papal primacy has grown with the Church,
and it remains a reality embedded in the Church as a living
community open to change.
Chapters focus on the development of the primacy in the first
five centuries, different functions of unity in the East and the
West; the papacy as the head of the Church and Christendom in the
Middle Ages, and the primacy as confessional mark of identity in
modern times.
An appendix includes the following texts: Irenaeus of Lyons,
"Adversus haereses; The Canons of Sardica 3, 4, 5 (343)"; Gregory
VII, "Dictatus papae (1075)"; The Council of Constance, "Decree
Haec sancta (April 6, 1415)"; The Council of Florence, "Formula of
Primacy; The Four Galican Articles, Declaration of the Church of
France (March 2,1682)"; "Papal Primacy of Jurisdiction and Papal
Infallibility According to Vatican I (1870)"; and "Episcopal
Collegiality and Papal Infallibility According to Vatican II"
(Lumen gentium "22)."
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