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Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Germany—History—18th century [Browse]
• Germany—Church history—18th century [Browse]
• Enlightenment—Germany [Browse]
• Germany—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-241) and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9780521478397 (hardback)
• 0521478391 (hardback)

LCCN

2008044141

OCLC

261177541

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