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Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism

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Klappentext This book explores the ways in which the German Catholic Enlightenment reconceived the relationship between religion, society, and the state. Zusammenfassung This book explores the ways in which the German Catholic Enlightenment reconceived the relationship between religion! society! and the state. Educated Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire questioned not only what it meant to be Catholic! but also what it meant to be German. In the process! they created German Catholicism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Perfect Societies: Rethinking the Church and the State: 2. The liberty of the German church: Febronianism and the German Gallicans; 3. The German church and the absolute state; 4. Church and empire in the eighteenth century; 5. Collegialism: the rise of the state, and the redefinition of the church; Part II. The Universal Church and the University Class: 6. Catholic enlightenment and the search for a bourgeois Catholicism; 7. A program for reform; 8. Pastors of enlightenment: reforming the secular clergy; 9. Gallican longings: nation and religion in the German enlightenment; 10. Conclusion.

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Authors Michael Printy, Michael (Wesleyan University Printy, Printy Michael
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 17.02.2011
 
EAN 9780521181518
ISBN 978-0-521-18151-8
No. of pages 256
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History

History of Ideas, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, Christianity, History of Religion, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Church history, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church

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