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conciliarist

conciliarist

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Noun

conciliarist (plural conciliarists)

  1. A believer in conciliarism; someone who thinks the highest authority of the Church is found in ecclesiastical councils.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 561:
      Conciliarists never achieved consensus as to how to define the Church or account for the authority of a council.

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