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The Medieval Church · 1380
Letter of Concord
Epistola Concordiae
Conrad of Gelnhausen · c. 1320–1390
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What it is
An argument that a general council may be summoned without a pope's consent when the church's welfare requires it, since the church is greater than any officer of it.
Why it lasted
The first practical proposal for ending the schism by council, and a founding document of conciliarism.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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