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Acknowledgments I wish to thank the editors of Theological Studies for permission to use here two articles that appeared in their pages, “The Consensus of the Church: Differing Classic Views,”  (March ), which became the chapters on Honoré Tournely and Pietro Ballerini, and “Bossuet and the Consensus of the Church,”  (December ), which is the chapter on Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. Research for this book stretched over many years, and I regret not writing down the names of people in various libraries who helped me unearth the venerable treatises that are the prime matter of the work.This would include persons at the Centre Sèvres Jesuit theological library in Paris, Gregorian University Library in Rome, and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.The staff members at my own Loyola University Library, especially those in the Rare Book Room, have always been helpful. I am grateful also to the Loyola University administration and the Department of Theology for the year of research leave, –.That, combined with the enforced leisure that came along a year later when a broken leg knocked out a semester of teaching , enabled me to do the bulk of the writing. I also really appreciate the help of the staff of the Catholic University of America Press: its director, David McGonagle; acquisitions editor, Gregory LaNave; former managing editor, Susan Needham; and copyeditor, Robin DuBlanc, whose help on the text has been very valuable. Of my many Jesuit ix 23 x Acknowledgments brethren who have been supportive I especially want to thank Fr. Frans Josef van Beeck and Fr. Pierre Blet for their stimulating comments . I hope I have not forgotten too many other people to whom I owe thanks. ...

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