Dominicans and the Pope – Papal Teaching Authority in the Medieval and Early Mo…

Dominicans and the PopePapal Teaching Authority in the Medieval and Early Modern Thomist Tradition\nAuthor(s): Ulrich Horst\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268030773, 978-0268030773\nSynopsis\nThese essays examine papal teaching authority from Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century to the Dominican School of Salamanca in sixteenth century Spain. Fr. Ulrich Horst, [url] an internationally renowned authority in historical theology, describes the various debates between the Dominicans and other orders over papal teaching authority, especially whether there should be limits placed on papal authority and, if so, what they might be.\n\n Horst reviews in a brief and masterful fashion the teaching of medieval and Catholic Reformation Dominican theologians about the teaching authority of the pope. He succinctly shows the differences within the order on the topic and makes clear how Dominicans.