The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth lateran Council, 1216-1245: Watchmen on the Tower.
Lawrence G. Duggan|Paul B. Pixton
This volume deals with the efforts by German episcopacy to implement reform decrees issued Pope Innocent III at Fourth Lateran Council in November 1215 within six ecclesiastical provinces of Bremen, Cologne, Magdeburg, Mains, Salzburg and Trier over three decades. Its primary focus is upon use provincial diocesan synods, episcopal visitations general chapters for regular clergy end that ...evils may be uprooted, virtues implanted, mistakes corrected, morals reformed, heresies extirpated, faith strengthened, ...and salutary enacted higher lower clergy. It examines methods personalities involved, relationships between leadership Germany Roman Curia, it assesses impact these a most opportune critical point history medieval Church.
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