Conciliar Movement

(1409–49) In Roman Catholicism, an effort to strengthen the authority of church councils over that of the papacy. Originally aimed at ending the Western Schism, the Conciliar Movement had its roots in legal and intellectual circles in the 13th century but emerged as a force at the Council of Pisa (1409), which elected a third pope in an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the parties of the existing pope and antipope. A second council, the Council of Constance (1414–18), ended the schism by voiding all papal offices and electing a new pope. Participants hoped to play an ongoing role in the church, but the popes continued to seek supremacy, and the Council of Basel (1431–49) ended fruitlessly.

Whereas the present conciliar movement as characterized by the World Council of Churches functions more in the tradition of the Oxford Faith and Order Conference of 1937, the renascence of evangelicalism on a world level goes back to the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh.

Billy Graham: an appreciation: wherever one travels around the world, ... by Lotz, Denton / Baptist History and Heritage

Ultramontane theology was busy eliminating all trace of an embarrassing historical anomaly, the drastic challenge which the so-called conciliar movement of the first half of the fifteenth century presented to the quasi-monarchical understanding of papal primacy enshrined in the 1870 decree.

Repressed memories by Duffy, Eamon / Commonweal

More to the point, it suggested the eventual solution with the emergence of a conciliar movement that triumphed at Constance.

Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform, and Pastoral ... by Mentzer, Raymond A. / Renaissance Quarterly

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