An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe, - 1789 187

This volume probes and deciphers the tensions and contradictions that underlie modern European Liberal Catholicism. Beginning with the French revolution and looking at dialogues between European ''public moralists'', the book discusses the ways in which liberal Catholics loosened their bonds with religion, all the while relying on it. It reflects on how and why they promoted a post-revolutionary state and society based on religious dogma and morality, and what new liberal order and socio-political and religious models they proposed. Beyond the analysis of the work of these Catholic intellectuals, the question of their conceiving a specific liberal approach through Catholicism is also investigated. More generally, it prompts a vital reappraisal of the political, ideological and philosophical pressures that the religious question caused in the redefinition of Western European post-revolutionary liberalism.>

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• Authors: Aude Attuel-Hallade
• Assisted by: Aude Attuel-Hallade (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2024
• EAN: 9781350371071
• ISBN: 978-1-350-37107-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Europe / Western, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Religion, Western Europe, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Western Continental Europe