11 Yves Congar: A Brief History of the Forms of the Magisterium and its Relation with Scholars – 1982

With the reactions against the Protestants, the Council of Trent, the Society of Jesus, and then the necessity of meeting the challenges from rationalism and popular and social movements, the four centuries preceding Vatican II developed under the aegis of the affirmation on this authority just as much in its form of ‘magisterium’. Let us note, a little schematically, seven points.