Certain Sainthood: Canonization and the Origins of Papal by Donald S. Prudlo
By Donald S. Prudlo
The doctrine of papal infallibility is a valuable guideline of Roman Catholicism, and but it's usually misunderstood by way of Catholics and non-Catholics alike. a lot of the present-day theological dialogue issues to the definition of papal infallibility made at Vatican I in 1870, however the origins of the talk are a lot older than that. In Certain Sainthood, Donald S. Prudlo lines this historical past again to the center a while, to a time while Rome used to be suffering to increase the bounds of papal authority over Western Christendom. certainly, as he indicates, the very proposal of papal infallibility grew out of debates over the pope's authority to canonize saints.
Prudlo's tale starts off within the 12th and 13th centuries whilst Rome used to be more and more fascinated with the struggle opposed to heresy. towards this finish the papacy enlisted the aid of the younger mendicant orders, in particular the Dominicans and Franciscans. As Prudlo indicates, a key topic within the papacy's conflict with heresy used to be keep watch over of canonization: heretical teams not just objected to the canonizing of particular saints, they challenged the concept that of sainthood ordinarily. In so doing they attacked the roots of papal authority. ultimately, with mendicant help, the very act of hard a papally created saint used to be deemed heresy.
Certain Sainthood attracts at the insights of a brand new new release of scholarship that integrates either lived faith and highbrow background into the learn of theology and canon legislation. the result's a piece that would fascinate students and scholars of church heritage in addition to a much broader public attracted to the evolution of 1 of the world’s most vital non secular institutions.
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