The Catholic enlightenment [electronic resource] : the forgotten history of a global movement / Ulrich L. Lehner.
2016
BX1330 .L44 2016eb
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The Catholic enlightenment [electronic resource] : the forgotten history of a global movement / Ulrich L. Lehner.
ISBN
9780190232948 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (257 pages)
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190232917 doi
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BX1330 .L44 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
282.0903
Summary
The most cherished values of modernity are unthinkable without the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Equal rights, the growth of democracy, and the idea of perpetual progress stem from thinkers who lived 250 years ago but whose ideas are as attractive as ever. This book argues that while Catholic beliefs are commonly assumed to be at odds with modernity, most of the progressive reforms associated with the Enlightenment actually began to take shape during the Catholic Counter-Reformation two centuries earlier and were staunchly defended by enlightened Catholics during the eighteenth century. This is the forgotten story of a progressive Catholicism that actively engaged with the world. Although this mode of thought declined in the nineteenth century, it reemerged powerfully at and after Vatican II (1962-1965).
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The most cherished values of modernity are unthinkable without the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Equal rights, the growth of democracy, and the idea of perpetual progress stem from thinkers who lived 250 years ago but whose ideas are as attractive as ever. This book argues that while Catholic beliefs are commonly assumed to be at odds with modernity, most of the progressive reforms associated with the Enlightenment actually began to take shape during the Catholic Counter-Reformation two centuries earlier and were staunchly defended by enlightened Catholics during the eighteenth century. This is the forgotten story of a progressive Catholicism that actively engaged with the world. Although this mode of thought declined in the nineteenth century, it reemerged powerfully at and after Vatican II (1962-1965).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Progress and Catholicism
oil and water?
Catholic Enlighteners around the globe
The Catholic learning curve : toleration and tolerance
Feminism, freedom, faith : Catholic women and the Enlightenment
Catholic Enlightenment in the Americas, China and India
Devils, demons, and the divine in the Catholic Enlightenment
Saints and sinners
Slaves, servants, and savages : slavery in Catholic countries
The death of Catholic Enlightenment and the beginning of a papal Catholicism.
oil and water?
Catholic Enlighteners around the globe
The Catholic learning curve : toleration and tolerance
Feminism, freedom, faith : Catholic women and the Enlightenment
Catholic Enlightenment in the Americas, China and India
Devils, demons, and the divine in the Catholic Enlightenment
Saints and sinners
Slaves, servants, and savages : slavery in Catholic countries
The death of Catholic Enlightenment and the beginning of a papal Catholicism.