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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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List of contributors
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Acknowledgements
Liberal Catholicism/Catholic Liberalism: A non-sense?
Aude Attuel-Hallade (ed.), Institut Catholique d'Etudes Supérieures (ICES)/Sorbonne Université/Panthéon Sorbonne, FrancePart One - Theology, truth and the philosophy of history1 Political Modernity-Christianity: Interpretative circles
Bernard Bourdin,
Institut Catholique de Paris, France2 John Henry Newman, an anti-liberal?
Frédéric Libaud, Université de Strasbourg, France3 Edmund Burke, T.B. Macaulay, Lord Acton and the French Revolution: The Church, the State and the individual
Aude Attuel-HalladePart Two - Catholicism and liberty(/ies)4 Liberties before liberalism: Ultramontane political thought in England, c. 1835-50
Colm O'Siochru, Dulwich College, London, UK 5 Historical and ecclesiological foundations of Spanish Catholic liberalism. From the Jansenist imprint to the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812
Bernard Callebat, Institut Catholique d'Etudes Supérieures (ICES), France6 Between Sinai and Calvary: Spanish Catholicism in the face of freedom of worship in 1869
Francisco Javier Ramon Solans, Casa de Velàsquez/Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Part Three - Temporal and spiritual power and education7 Sin, grace and secular history: Pierre Paul Royer-Collard's criticism of the anti-sacrilege law of 1825
Daniele Giuseppe Palmer, King's College Cambridge, UK 8 'A free Church in a free state'. The relationship between Church and State in the thought of Charles de Montalembert
Arthur Hérisson, Ecole française de Rome, Italy 9 J. H. Newman facing the spirit of the day: A focus on the idea of education in the Victorian context
Maud Besnard, Institut Catholique de Rennes, France Conclusion: Contested faith or contested liberty? - Contexts and strategies of Liberal Catholicism
Peter Schröder, University College London (UCL), UKBibliography
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About the author
Aude Attuel-Hallade is University Lecturer and Researcher in Modern British and French History at CRICES, Institut Catholique d'Etudes Supérieures and the Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle, Sorbonne Université, France.
