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1 online resource (x, 450 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations |
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Introduction: John McManners, man and historian / Nigel Ashton. -- The science of sin: Jacques de Sainte-Beuve and his Cas de conscience / Robin Briggs. -- John Dury and the practice of Irenicism / Scott Mandelbrote. -- An Irish opportunist in Paris: Dr Piers de Girardin / Jacques M. Gres-Gayer. -- 'Il fallut même réveiller les Suisses': aspects of private religious practice in a public setting in eighteenth-century Versailles / Giles Barber. -- A quest for peace in the church: the Abbé A.J.C. Clément's journey to Rome of 1758 / John Rogister. -- Secular Simony: the clergy and the sale of offices in eighteenth-century France / William Doyle. -- 'Superstitious enemies of the flesh'? The variety of Benedictine responses to the enlightenment / Dom Aidan Bellenger. -- Joseph II and the monasteries of Austria and Hungary / Derek Beales. -- A 'lay divine': Burke, Christianity, and the preservation of the British state, 1790-1797 / Nigel Ashton. -- The Kirk, the French Revolution, and the burden of Scottish whiggery / Colin Kidd |
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Religion according to Napoleon: the limitations of pragmatism / Geoffrey Ellis. -- Religious reactions in post-revolutionary French literature: Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staël, Joseph de Maistre / Richard Fargher. -- A not exclusive truth: an early nineteenth-century pastoral theology and Erasmus / Bruce Mansfield. -- The office of Chief Rabbi: a very English institution / Aubrey Newman. -- A 'footing beyond time': church, state, and the individual in Carlyle's historical writing / Laurence Le Quesne. -- L'Eglise, l'État et l'Université: Les Facultés de Théologie Catholique en France au XIX[e (superscript)] Siècle / Bruno Neveu. -- Colonial church establishment in the aftermath of the Colenso controversy / Peter Hinchliff. -- The British ambassador and the funeral of Pope Pius IX / Owen Chadwick. -- Eastern horizons: Anglicans and the Oriental Orthodox Churches / Geoffrey Rowell. -- Epilogue: The changing role of the ecclesiastical historian / Edward Norman |
| Summary |
This collection focuses on the nature of religious change over more than two centuries. Essays cover the whole of Europe and include a survey of individual responses to crises in the religious life of the state, and an exploration of the ways in which religion can offer help in the conduct of life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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McManners, John
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McManners, John, 1916
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McManners, John fast |
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McManness, John, (1916- ...) ram |
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Religion
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Christendom.
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Veranderingsprocessen.
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Église catholique -- 1500-1800.
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Europe -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045633
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Europe -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045751
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Europe
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Europe -- Histoire religieuse -- 1500- ...
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Europe -- Histoire religieuse -- 18e siècle.
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Europe -- Histoire religieuse -- 19e siècle.
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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Electronic book
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Aston, Nigel
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McManners, John
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| LC no. |
96022714 |
| ISBN |
9780191676871 |
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019167687X |
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