Enlightenment and the creation of German Catholicism

Printy, Michael O'Neill.

Enlightenment and the creation of German Catholicism [electronic resource] / Michael Printy. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 246 p.)

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

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


Enlightenment--Germany.


Germany--Church history--18th century.
Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.


Electronic books.

BX1534 / .P75 2009eb

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