preconciliar

See also: pre-conciliar and pre-Conciliar

English

Alternative forms

• pre-conciliar
• pre-Conciliar

Etymology

pre- +‎ conciliar

Adjective

preconciliar

1. In or of the period before an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.

   Antonym: postconciliar

   • 1912, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, Studies in Early Church History: Collected Papers‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 52:

     Whether the patriarchal Churches then owed their uniqueness ultimately to their civil position or to their ecclesiastical traditions will be a question to which Chalcedon gives no answer, or rather gives two inconsistent ones. We are thrown back for the solution of the problem on Nicaea and its recognition of the pre-eminence of Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch. But since what was recognised at Nicaea was not created there, the investigation belongs rather to the pre-conciliar era of Christianity, and must for the moment be deferred.

   • 1912 November, Shailer Mathews, “The Social Origin of Theology”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 18, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 316:

     Any theological reconstruction therefore that would be thorough-going and do for our age what the original creators of theology did for theirs in preconciliar periods must face two tasks […]

Spanish

Adjective

preconciliar m or f (masculine and feminine plural preconciliares)

1. preconciliar

Further reading

• “preconciliar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014