Title: Natural law, conciliarism and consent in the late Middle Ages : studies in ecclesiastical and intellectual history /
Authors: Oakley, Francis.
Publisher: Variorum Reprints,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Natural law; Conciliar theory.
Contents: Religious and ecclesiastical life on the eve of the Reformation -- Pierre d’Ailly -- Pierre d’Ailly and the absolute power of God : another note on the theology of nominalism -- Pierre d’Ailly and papal infallibility -- Gerson and d’Ailly : an admonition -- Pseudo-Zabarella’s ‘Capitala agendorm’ : an old case reopened -- The ‘Tractatus de fide et ecclesia, Romano pontifice et concilio generali’ of Johannes Breviscoxe -- The “new conciliarism” and is implications : a problem in history and hermeneutics -- On the road from Constance to 1688 : the political thought of John Major and George Buchanan -- Almain and Major : Conciliar theory on the eve of the Reformation -- Conciliarism at the First Lateran Council? -- Conciliarism in the sixteenth century : Jacques Almain again -- Figgis, Constance, and the Divines of Paris -- Natural law, the Corpus mysticum, and consent in Conciliar thought from John of Paris to Matthias Ugonius -- Medieval theories of natural law : William of Ockham and the significance of the voluntarist tradition -- Christian theology and the Newtonian science : the rise of the concept of the law of nature.