Tradition and authority in the western church, 300-1140 / Karl Frederick Morrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Karl F. (Karl Frederick), 1936- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tradition (Theology)--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Tradition (Theology).

Tradition (Theology)--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Church--Authority--History of doctrines.

Church.

Political science--Europe--History.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning with the conversion of Constantine in 312 and the establishment of the Christian Empire, the book continues through the Middle Ages up to the publication of Gratian's Decretum, the great, systematic book of Church law which transformed the idea of tradition into legal concepts. Throughout this period the hierarchy was called upon to deal with such fundamental questions as the nature of tradition and the extent of its authority, the infallibility of the pope, and the proper role of the laity in defining dogma.Originally published in 1969.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Tradition as a Safeguard of Cohesion

Book I. Tradition as Warrant of Schism: The Church in the Later Roman Empire

Part I. Multiple Centers of Cohesion

Chapter 2. Paradoxes of Unity

Part II. The "Janus Complex" in Roman Thought

Chapter 3. The Conflict of Tradition and Discretion

Chapter 4. The Byzantine Papacy: Tradition Reaffirmed

Part III. Beginning a New Era

Chapter 5. The Eighth-Century Crisis: Papal Reassertion and Frankish Dissent

Chapter 6. Confrontation and Disengagement: Tradition and Political Groupings in the Iconoclastic Dispute

Chapter 7. Summary: The Progress of Transvaluation

Book II. Tradition Transvaluated: Tradition, Discretion, and Political Groupings in the West from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century

Chapter 8. The New Political Order

Part I. The Ninth and Tenth Centuries: Tradition and Official Spontaneity

Chapter 9. The Popes and the Franks

Chapter 10. The Tenth Century: Hardening the Lines

Part II. The Investiture Controversy: A Test of Accountability

Chapter 11. Tradition Discarded: The Gregorians

Chapter 12. Tradition: Watchword of Resistance

Chapter 13. Conflict Among the Reformers

Chapter 14. Results of the Controversy

Chapter 15. Summary: From Law to Jurisprudence

Appendices

Appendix A. Second Thoughts on the Attitudes of Popes Nicholas I and John VIII Toward Temporal Government

Appendix B. Saxon Germany and the Myth of the Sacerdotal King

Appendix C. The Gregorian Reformers' View of Temporal Government

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-64847-6

1-4008-7935-3

OCLC:

927442356