Spór o definicję koncyliaryzmu

Abstract

The article brings a review, but also a polemics with some thesis given by Thomas Wünsch in his recent book: Konziliarismus und Polen. Personen, Politik und Programme aus Polen zur Verfassungsfrage der Kirche in der Zeit der mittelalterlicher Reformkonzilien (Paderborn-München 1998). The discussion is focused on the definition of conciliarism itself. Prof. Wünsch seems to pass over the variety and diversity of conciliarism stressed by the modem historiography (Black, Alberigo, Thiemey, Swieżawski), and to reserve the term „conciliarism” strictly to the ecclesiological ideas of the council of Basle. That question of „recognition” is followed by a few others of a great importance: what are the sources of the conciliar movement (theology of Marsilius and Ockham or the ideas of 12th and 13th century canonists?), what is the theological importance of the decrees of the conucil of Constance (Haec sancta and Frequens), how far the conciliar movement can be identified with the ideas of the Church-reform so vigorously proclaimed in the beginning of 15th century? The excellent book by Thomas Wünsch seems to be the real starting point to re-discuss the events and the ecclesiology of the late medieval Church.