Enlightenment and the creation of German Catholicism / Michael Printy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Printy, Michael O'Neill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Catholic Church.

Enlightenment--Germany.

Enlightenment.

Germany--Church history--18th century.

Germany.

Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Enlightenment & the Creation of German Catholicism

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18914-4

1-283-33099-7

9786613330994

0-511-50755-0

0-511-57558-0

0-511-50821-2

0-511-50442-X

0-511-50887-5

0-511-50656-2

OCLC:

437110187