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