Similarly, what is Conciliarism and how does it effect the church?
Conciliarism is a doctrine asserting that a general council constitutes the supreme authority in the Church. The word is used especially to designate a complex of medieval ideas that grew up in the 13th and 14th centuries and found wide acceptance at the time of the Western Schism (1378–1417).
Secondly, what did the conciliar movement do? The conciliar movement of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries was an attempt to modify and limit papal control over the Church by means of general councils. What emerged as the practical alternative to papal centralisation was devolution of power to secular rulers and nation-states.
Subsequently, one may also ask, why was the conciliar movement important?
Its original purpose was to heal the papal schism caused by there being two, and later three, popes at the same time (see antipope). The movement was successful, deposing or accepting the resignation of the popes concerned.
What is conciliar theory?
Conciliarism (conciliar theory) is the doctrine that the general council is the highest ecclesial authority such that even the pope is subject to its supremacy. Its roots lie primarily in the discussions of medieval canon law concerning the relationship between papal immunity and responsibility.
