Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism 1st Edition by Michael Printy ISBN 0521478391 9780521478397
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ISBN 10: 0521478391
ISBN 13: 9780521478397
Author: Michael Printy
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.
- Extensive analysis of sources largely ignored in English-language scholarship
- Was the first monograph treatment of the German Catholic Enlightenment
- Considers the importance of the German Enlightenment to German history
Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism 1st Table of contents:
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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