TY - BOOK AU - Prudlo,Donald ED - Oxford University Press, TI - Certain sainthood: canonization and the origins of papal infallibility in the medieval church SN - 9781501701535 (ebook) : AV - BX2330 .P78 2016 U1 - 235.2409 23 KW - Canonization KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Christian saints KW - Cult KW - History of doctrines KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Popes KW - Infallibility KW - Papacy KW - To 1309 N1 - Online access provided by University Press Scholarship Online; Previously issued in print: 2015; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - The doctrine of papal infallibility is a central tenet of Roman Catholicism, and yet it is frequently misunderstood by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Much of the present-day theological discussion points to the definition of papal infallibility made at Vatican I in 1870, but the origins of the debate are much older than that. In this book, Donald S. Prudlo traces this history back to the Middle Ages, to a time when Rome was struggling to extend the limits of papal authority over Western Christendom UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801454035.001.0001 ER -