preconciliar
preconciliar adjective: in or of the period before an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.
Adjective
preconciliar
- In or of the period before an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.
- Whether the patriarchal Churches then owed their uniqueness ultimately to their civil position or to their ecclesiastical traditions will be a question to which Chalcedon gives no answer, or rather gives two inconsistent ones. We are thrown back for the solution of the problem on Nicaea and its...1912, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, Studies in Early Church History: Collected Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 52
- Any theological reconstruction therefore that would be thorough-going and do for our age what the original creators of theology did for theirs in preconciliar periods must face two tasks[…]1912 November, Shailer Mathews, “The Social Origin of Theology”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 18, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 316
- Antonyms:
- postconciliar
Antonyms of preconciliar
Forms of preconciliar
| alternative form | pre-conciliar |
|---|---|
| alternative form | pre-Conciliar |
Origin of preconciliar
From pre- + conciliar.
Questions about preconciliar
- What does preconciliar mean?
- Preconciliar means in or of the period before an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.
- What part of speech is preconciliar?
- Preconciliar is an adjective.
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