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Author Printy, Michael O'Neill

Title Enlightenment and the creation of German Catholicism / Michael Printy
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
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
Summary The first account of the German Catholic Enlightenment, this book explores the ways in which 18th-century Germans reconceived the relationship between religion, society, and the state
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-241) and index
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Subject Catholic Church -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Katholische Kirche gnd
Subject Enlightenment -- Germany
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Aufklärung
Katholische Kirche.
SUBJECT Germany -- Church history -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054478
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054608
Subject Germany
Deutschland
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511508219
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