...Marcus Antonius de Dominis is one of those creators of the modern age whose memory has been buried by the capriciousness of European history. Yet in the whole clash between the Pope and the Reformation there was hardly any more lucid work written than his ten-volume De Republica Ecclesiastica, nor did any more universal figure emerge from the remnants of what had been the state of Croatia than this gifted physicist and Christian moralist, Archbishop of Split and Dean of Windsor. His importance was European in the full sense of the word. What he envisaged was no less than a unified and peaceful Europe based on the principles of mutual tolerance and respect for traditional difference.

Ivan Supek
M. A. de Dominis - A Message of Peace
Encyklopedia moderna 2(1967) 5/6

… The revived memory on Markantun de Dominis is exceptional and versatile. Perhaps this is the first time in 350 years that we wish to encounter him for himself and his thought without rising his name like an attacking or defending flag in a fight that is not his. We can therefore concentrate on Dominis’ central work De republica ecclesiastica aware that this huge theological file, however we approach it, bears indisputable human and believer testimony of a man from our environment who was breaking through these crossed roads of western history before us thinking about them…

… For Markantun there was actually only one important theological question: the real-historic role of the Church in the context of the late 16th and early 17th centuries! Therefore, at the time Reformation had obviously been established, in the decades following the Trident Council that had just started to be implemented (Markantun was probably born at the time this assembly was taking place) and the map of divided and war waging Europe was changing basically. This was the context in which Dominis wrote his central theological work De republica ecclesiastica. He was writing it, so to say, all his life. Other theological files of his orbit around that book heliocentrically like the fragments produced by his central preoccupation periodical explosions…

Josip Turčinović
Markantun de Dominis from Theological Perspective
Encyklopedia moderna 2(1967) 5/6

… De Dominis connects bishopric collegiality and pope’s primate, thus announcing the Second Vatican Assembly (1962-1965) lesson, with the purpose of approaching the Anglicans and Protestants. In his works he presents topics – very actual today – on peace and harmony among the countries, peoples and religions. The learned man of Rab based his scientific suppositions on the systematic study of the Holy Scripture, patristics, ecclesiastic law and the council documents. Aware that the church of his time, having become too secular, betrayed Christian ideals of the original Christ’s church, his aim was general reconciliation of Christian churches and religious systems. In his files he therefore insists on the return to the original Christianity and the ideal of evangelic unity. We hope that the announced opening of the Holy Inquisition Office archives will provide for de Dominis’ rehabilitation, which in 1992 posthumously happened with Galileo Galilei…

Franjo Šanjek
From review of the book CHOSEN WORKS 1

… Marko Antonio de Dominis’ life and work put him among the greatest names of the European thought and science dating in early 17th century. His work was characterised by professionalism and scientific methodological research of his contemporary social phenomena as well as the natural phenomena. His thinking was not heretic, however it was unacceptable at the time of numerous mistakes that filled the heads haunted by autocratically governed society and church. The inquisition procedure and condemnation of Marko Antonio de Dominis say more about his judges than about himself and his work. He was the predecessor of ideas and positions of the church at the Second Vatican Conference. Among other things, these guiding ideas are: respecting dignity of each human person, right to be different, pluralism, culture of dialogue and unity of people regardless of their legitimate differences in any possible way. In a particular way de Dominis was a predecessor of ecumenism among the Christian churches and inter-religious dialogue. It would be good that publishing his opus contributes to the general rehabilitation of this great man and archbishop and that the church pardons him from the condemnation of being a heretic…

Ivan Grubišić
From the review of the book CHOSEN WORKS 1

...Marco Antonio De Dominis was the theologian of reconciliation and uniting of the Churches. On what basis did he build his theology? It was on bishopric collegiality. The reason of disagreement between Christian religions lies in disagreement about various religious truths. De Dominis saw the solution of the problem in accepting the essential religion articles. Christian religions might part in other things. The question, naturally, arose how to determine the essential religion articles. De Dominis concerned that the measure of what counted as essential religion articles were the original church faith, visible in religious symbols (Beliefs) and in the first Church councils. Which, however, was, according to De Dominis, major difficulty regarding unity or disunity of the Churches? It was, as De Dominis thought, the pope’s precedence, his primate. He proposed a solution for its overcoming...

Ivan Golub
Marco Antonio de Dominis, theologian of reconciliation
Preface to book De republica ecclesiastica libri I, II

… 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