Enlightenment and the creation of German Catholicism / Michael Printy.

Author
Printy, Michael O'Neill [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)

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This book tells the story of how eighteenth-century German Catholics rethought the Church. Educated German Catholics envisioned a Church that would solidify the link between religion, civilization, and morality. The first account of the German Catholic Enlightenment, this book explores the ways in which eighteenth-century Germans reconceived the relationship between religion, society, and the state. Seeking a balance between Germany and Rome, Catholic reformers desired a national Church that would enjoy a large measure of autonomy but would still be in communion with the universal Church. In trying to reform the Church, 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. Arguing that German confessional identities were recast in the eighteenth century, this book forces a revision of our understanding of the German Enlightenment and its place in modern German history.
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Contents
  • Introduction
  • Perfect societies : rethinking the church and the state
  • The liberty of the German church : febronianism and the German Gallicans
  • The German church and the absolute state
  • Church and empire in the eighteenth century
  • Collegialism : the rise of the state and the redefinition of the church
  • The universal church and the universal class
  • Catholic enlightenment and the search for a bourgeois Catholicism
  • A program for reform
  • Pastors of enlightenment : reforming the secular clergy
  • Gallican longings : nation and religion in the German enlightenment
  • Conclusion.
Other title(s)
  • Enlightenment & the Creation of German Catholicism
  • Cambridge University Press. Religion.
ISBN
9780511575587 (ebook)
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