postconciliar

Adjective

postconciliar (comparative more postconciliar, superlative most postconciliar)

1. In or of the period following an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.
   • This, as Lebedeff reminds his readers, is no new theory: it was advanced in the last century by Franzelin; while Vincenzi argues that the Creed is a post-Conciliar addition to the book made not by the author, but by another and a less skilful hand.1903 January, N. Orloff, “A Russian View of the Creed of Constantinople”, in The Journal of Theological Studies, volume 4, pages 287–288
   • A theory of the indirect power of the papacy was developed at this time by John of Turrecremata, one of the staunchest opponents of the claims of the conciliarists, but he was the exception to the majority of fifteenth century theologians and jurists in the post-conciliar period.1963, Paul E. Sigmund, Nicholas of Cusa and Medieval Political Thought, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, →LCCN, page 287

   Antonyms:

   preconciliar