““Compromise, the university theologians believed, was the only way to reunite the broken Church. In 1381, John Gerson and Pierre d'Ailly, 2 high-ranking members of the theology department, spearheaded the vision for this platform. They argued for the creation of a general Church council, which some say, was much too ambitious a venture. The council would be granted authority over the popes in question via a court of sorts, and a verdict, or conclusion to the conundrum, would be reached by those on the board.””
