| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Contents |
Progress and Catholicism, oil and water? -- Catholic enlighteners around the globe -- The Catholic learning curve: toleration and tolerance -- Feminism, freedom, faith: Catholic women and the enlightenment -- Catholic enlightenment in the Americas, China and India -- Devils, demons, and the divine in the Catholic enlightenment -- Saints and sinners -- Slaves, servants, and savages: slavery in Catholic countries -- The death of Catholic enlightenment and the beginning of a papal Catholicism |
| Summary |
The most cherished values of modernity are unthinkable without the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Equal rights, the growth of democracy, and the idea of perpetual progress stem from thinkers who lived 250 years ago but whose ideas are as attractive as ever. This book argues that while Catholic beliefs are commonly assumed to be at odds with modernity, most of the progressive reforms associated with the Enlightenment actually began to take shape during the Catholic Counter-Reformation two centuries earlier and were staunchly defended by enlightened Catholics during the eighteenth century. This is the forgotten story of a progressive Catholicism that actively engaged with the world. Although this mode of thought declined in the nineteenth century, it reemerged powerfully at and after Vatican II (1962-1965) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- History -- Modern period, 1500-
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| SUBJECT |
Catholic Church fast |
| Subject |
Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
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Enlightenment
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190232924 |
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0190232927 |
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9780190232948 |
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0190232943 |
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