Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe : a transnational history / edited by Jeffrey D. Burson and Ulrich L. Lehner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burson, Jeffrey D., editor.

Lehner, Ulrich L., 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Europe--History--18th century.

Catholic Church.

Enlightenment--Europe.

Enlightenment.

Church history.

History.

Europe.

Europe--Church history--18th century.

Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

x, 482 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction: Catholicism and Enlightment, past, present, and future / Jeffrey D. Burson

part 1: Catholic Enlightenment and the papacy. Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758): the ambivalent enlightener / Mario Rosa

part 2: Catholicism and the siècle des lumières in France and Savoy. Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (1718-1790): an enlightened anti-philosophe / Jeffrey D. Burson

Giacinto Sigismondo Cardinal Gerdil (1718-1802): Enlightenment as cultural and religious achievement / Dries Vanysacker

Adrien Lamourette (1742-1794): the unconventional revolutionary and reformer / Caroline Chopelin-Blanc

Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821): heir of the Enlightenment, enemy of revolutions, and spiritual progressivist / Carolina Armenteros

Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854): lost sheep of the religious Enlightenment / Carolina Armenteros

part 3: Catholic Enlightenment in the Holy Roman Empire. Benedict Stattler (1728-1797): the reinvention of Catholic theology with the help of Wolffian metaphysics / Ulrich L. Lehner

Beda Mayr(1742-1794): ecumenism and dialogue with modern thought / Ulrich L. Lehner

part 4: Catholicism, Enlightenment, and Habsbug Europe. Franz Stephan Rautenstrauch (1734-1785): church reform for the sake of the state / Thomas Wallnig

Johann Pezzl (1756-1823): Enlightenment in the satirical mode / Ritchie Robertson

part 5: Varieties of Italian Catholic Enlightenment. Lodovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750): Enlightenment in a Tridentine mode / Paola Vismara

Antonio Genovesi (1713-1769): reform through commerce and renewed natural law / Niccolò Guasti

Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799): science and mysticism / Massimo Mazzotti

part 6: Catholicism, Enlightenment, and the Iberian states. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y Montenegro (1676-1764): Benedictine and skeptic enlightener / Francisco Sánchez-Blanco

Josep Climent i Avinent (1706-1781): enlightened Catholic, civic humanist, seditionist / Andrea J. Smidt

part 7: Transnational trajectories: the intersection of Irish, French, Italian, and Habsburg developments. Ruggiero Boscovich (1711-1787): Jesuit science in an Enlightenment context / Jonathan A. Wright

Luke Joseph Hooke (1714-1796): theological tolerance in an apologetic mold / Thomas O'Connor

part 8: Catholicism in Protestant territorial-dynastic states: Scottish and English Enlightenment variations. Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686-1743): Catholic freethinking and enlightened mysticism / Gabriel Glickman

Alexander Geddes (1737-1802): biblical criticism, ecclesistical democracy, and Jacobinism / Mark Goldie

part 9: The Polish Catholic Enlightenment. Stanisław Konarski (1700-1772): a Polish Machiavelli? / Jerzy Lukowski

Hugo Kołłątaj (1750-1812): the revolutionary priest / Anna Łysiak-Łątkowska.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268022402

0268022402

OCLC:

864418171