… The
first and the second book of this huge work are before
us:
In the first book, the subtitle of which is: De forma
republicae Ecclesiasticae, Dominis deals with essential
problems of an ecclesiastical state form as an organisation,
where, according to the Gospel, only Christ is the real
and true head of the church. Searching for the reasons
of the church’s getting away from its ideal established
by the original Christianity, he showed that, according
to the Holy Scripture, the apostles as Christ’s emissaries
on earth were in all their rights and duties equal.
In the second book De Rectoribus, et Ministris Ecclesiae,
from the thesis on the equality of the apostles, as
Christ’s heirs on Earth, Dominis determined the position
of bishops as their legitimate heirs equal among themselves
and accordingly assigned.
From Peter’s unjustified primate before the other apostles
Dominis draws the unjustification of pope’s primate
over other bishops, considering him the basic and main
cause of all disputes…
Vesna
Tudjina Gamulin
From the review of the book
De republica ecclesiastica libri I, II
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