Dubrovnik annals, No. 9, 2005.
Original scientific paper
The Concept of Authorities in the Treatise Tractatus de Ecclesia by Ivan Stojković
Relja Seferović
Abstract
The Dubrovnik-born Dominican friar Ivan Stojković (1392/5- 1443) was actively engaged in the Church Councils in the first half of the 15th century, especially in the Church Council of Basle. Although the disputes he led with the Hussites and the Byzantines did not bring any practical success, he wrote a book, Tractatus de Ecclesia, where he expressed his ideas about how to overcome the existing divisions within the Christian world, and about how the Church had to be reformed from within. His hopes were projected in the universal ecclesiastical community named Ecclesia militans. Looking for new authorities which would corroborate his ideas, Stojković found them in the universities.
Keywords
Dubrovnik; 15th C.; Dominicans; Ivan Stojković; Council of Basle; Catholic church; Orthodox; Hussites; theology; university
Hrčak ID:
19744
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Publication date:
2.8.2005.
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