The Church in Council. Conciliar Movements, Religious Practice and the Papacy from Nicaea to Vatican II

Norman Tanner is a leading church historian, especially of the Middle Ages and general councils (and—full disclosure—a scholar that this reviewer has edited for Paulist Press). This book is not a monograph or standard history of the general councils but is rather the second collection of Tanner's articles published by I. B. Tauris. The first was The Ages of Faith: Popular Religion in Late Medieval England and Western Europe (2009), which itself included five articles concerned with conciliar history. Unlike other such volumes produced by publishers such as Ashgate/Variorum, these articles do not appear in original fonts or pagination but have been synthesized into a whole. Why the five prior articles on councils appeared in Ages of Faith and not here is curious because one must look in two places for what should be in one volume. All scholars and students of church councils along with seminarians of all Christian churches need to have both of these anthologies on their shelves.

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