Dissertation sur l’excommunication

Geneva: Heirs of J.J. Paschoud, 1827. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Original blue wrappers. Errata slip laid in. Mild foxing, otherwise in excellent condition. Only edition of this historical investigation of excommunication from the Catholic Church. Divided into four periods, it covers the birth of Christ to the reign of Constantine, the year 313 until the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, 1455 to the Reformation of 1520, and the Reformation to Calvinism. Written in a philosophical rather than pious voice, the text within each section addresses the process of excommunication, notable excommunicates, and specific sins that would result in excommunication.

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