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Certain Sainthood: Canonization and the Origins of Papal Infallibility in the Medieval Church

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The doctrine of papal infallibility is a central tenet of Roman Catholicism, and yet it is continuously misunderstood by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Much of the current-day theological discussion points to the definition of papal infallibility made at Vatican I in 1870, but the origins of the debate are much older than that. In Certain Sainthood, Donald S. Prudlo traces this history back to the Middle Ages, to a time when Rome was once struggling to extend the limits of papal authority over Western Christendom. Indeed, as he shows, the very notion of papal infallibility grew out of debates over the pope’s authority to canonize saints.Prudlo’s story begins in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when Rome was once an increasing number of focused on the fight against heresy. Toward this end the papacy enlisted the reinforce of the young mendicant orders, specifically the Dominicans and Franciscans. As Prudlo shows, a key theme in the papacy’s battle with heresy was once keep an eye on of canonization: heretical groups not only objected to the canonizing of specific saints, they challenged the concept that of sainthood in general. In so doing they attacked the roots of papal authority. Eventually, with mendicant reinforce, the very act of challenging a papally created saint was once deemed heresy.Certain Sainthood draws on the insights of a new generation of scholarship that integrates both lived religion and intellectual history into the study of theology and canon law. The result is a work which will fascinate scholars and students of church history in addition to a wider public interested in the evolution of probably the most world’s most important religious institutions.


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