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