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- the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church
How To Use Council of Constance In A Sentence
- When Pope John XXIII condemned the Bohemian Reformer John Hus to the flames as a heretic, at the Council of Constance in 1415, he also anathematised the Englishman John Wyclif.
- The Council of Constance brought the Western nations into active diplomatical relations, and sowed seeds of thought which afterwards sprang up in Luther. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
- A Council of Constance was convened under an "antipope" (not the official pope), and this Council tried Huss in 1414 and burned him at the stake, making him a martyr. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- Eck's comments on the "pestilential" errors of Wiclif and Hus condemned by the Council of Constance was met by the reply, that, so far as the position of the Hussites was concerned, there were among them many who were "very Christian and evangelical". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- Martin V, a Roman of Romans, dissolved the Council of Constance. 1378-1417
- We may premise that the shah is the first sovereign who, as such, has become the guest of Switzerland since the meeting of the Council of Constance in the fifteenth century. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
- Orleans, in 1407, to find reasons for openly justifying the murder of tyrants, and the Council of Constance did not venture to pronounce a decided disapproval of this doctrine; and not only that, but it gave, for the first time, serious countenance to the notion of moral probabilism, that is, the doctrine that a morally doubtful action is permissible on condition that several esteemed Fathers can be cited in its favor. Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.
