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Fourth Lateran Council

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fourth Lateran Council 1215, 12th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, convened at the Lateran Palace, Rome, by Pope Innocent III to crown the work of his pontificate. It was one of the most important councils ever held, and its canons sum up Innocent's ideas for the church. They include a statement of faith with a definition of transubstantiation, confirmation of all kinds of previous disciplinary canons, regulations for the trials of ecclesiastics, arrangements for a new crusade, and many other important matters. This council established the requirements of confession at least... Read more
Lateran Council
...Palace in Rome. The First Lateran Council (1123), held during the papacy...reiterated decrees of earlier ecumenical councils (condemning simony , forbidding clergymen to marry, etc.). The Second Lateran Council (1139) was called by Innocent II...election of a rival pope. The Third ... Read more
Lateran Council
Lateran Council One of the synods or meetings of senior churchmen held at the Lateran Palace in Rome. The First in 1123...antipope Anacletus II. In 1179 the Third Council condemned SIMONY and regularized papal elections. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) is known as the ... Read more

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Metropolitan might and papal power on the Latin-Christian frontier: Tranforming the Danish church around the time of the Fourth Lateran Council
; Even before the Fourth Lateran Council met in the autumn...interpretation of the council's place in the...Foreville credited Fourth Lateran with hastening...articulated at Fourth Lateran provided a foundation...the time of the council closed the door... Read more
The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1216-1245: Watchmen on the Tower
; ...the Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1216-1245: Watchmen...543. $135.00.) The Fourth Lateranum was the most important medieval council. Its seventy canons...articulated at the Fourth Lateranum, the German church... Read more
The Council of Bourges, 1225: A Documentary History
; The Council of Bourges, 1225:A Documentary History...599. $114.95.) Except only for the Fourth Lateran Council, the Council of Bourges that met in 1225 was...labor, Richard Kay explains that the council deserves study, not only because... Read more
The General Councils: A History of the Twenty-One Church Councils from Nicaea to Vatican II
; ...councils in the first millennium, councils in the Middle Ages, councils in the reformation era, and councils in the modern age. In part one...addresses the work of the early councils in establishing doctrine and providing...part two, he turns to the four Lateran and the Vienne ... Read more
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; ...necessities by comrades. The history of distaste began formally in 1139, when the crossbow was banned by the Second Lateran Council. Pope Innocent II described the weapon as "hateful to God and unfit for Christians" - especially those who owned... Read more
El derecho canonico catalan en la baja Edad Media: La diocesis de Gerona en los siglos XIII y XIV
; ...415. Paperback.) The Fourth Lateran Council, convoked by Pope Innocent...in the century after Lateran IV provide a unique and...applied the decrees of Lateran IV. In the process they...decrees of the general councils and the ever important... Read more
ON THIS DAY 11 NOVEMBER
; THE GREAT WAR ENDS 1215 The Fourth Lateran Council defines transubstantiation the process by which bread and wine become the flesh and blood of Christ. 1880 Outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged... Read more
THE PARADOX OF UNLIKENESS IN ACHARD OF ST. VICTOR AND MARGUERITE PORETE
; A succinct statement from the Fourth Lateran Council appears to sum up one central tenet of Christian theological anthropology: "Between Creator and creature one can never affirm as... Read more
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; ...18.95. A first-class general study of lay religiosity in the period between the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and the conclusion of the Fifth Lateran Council in 1515. Although written as a textbook, it displays none of the aridity or patronizing... Read more
Religion and Devotion in Europe, c. 1215-c. 1515
; ...a general survey of Latin Christianity from the Fourth Lateran Council to the eve of the Reformation. Aimed at a general...on the verge of collapse. However, once the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517) failed to accommodate reformist pressures... Read more

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