| 1. | France forced Catholic theologians to support conciliarism and deny Papal infallibility.
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| 2. | The Council is important for its relationship to ecclesial Conciliarism and Papal supremacy.
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| 3. | Populated by cardinals opposed to conciliarism, the Lateran Council condemned the authority of conciliary bodies.
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| 4. | Conciliarism reached its apex with the Council of Basel ( 1431 1449 ), which ultimately fell apart.
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| 5. | Nicholas of Cusa synthesized this strain of conciliarism, balancing hierarchy with consent and representation of the faithful.
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| 6. | Conciliarism holds that the supreme authority of the church lies with a General Council, not with the pope.
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| 7. | In this crisis, conciliarism took center stage as the best option for deciding which pope would step down.
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| 8. | Among the theorists of this more clerical conciliarism were Jean Gerson, Pierre d'Ailly and Francesco Zabarella.
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| 9. | A new interest in conciliarism was awakened in Catholic Church circles with the convocation of the Second Vatican Council.
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| 10. | The whole matter was a futile attempt to revive 15th century conciliarism and to employ it for political purposes.
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