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Author Burson, Jeffrey D

Title The rise and fall of theological enlightenment : Jean-Martin de Prades and ideological polarization in eighteenth-century France / Jeffrey D. Burson ; foreword by Dale Van Kley
Published Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 494 pages)
Series Project Muse philosophy and religion collection
Contents Perspectives on enlightenment, religion, and the Abbe de Prades : toward a new historiography of theological enlightenment -- The creation of the Jesuit synthesis : Locke, Malebranche, and the flowering of theological enlightenment -- The radicalizing enlightenment and the maturation of theological enlightenment to 1750 -- Bringing up the theological enlightenment : life, leisure, philosophy, and culture at the University of Paris and the seminaries, ca. 1730-1755 -- Theological enlightenment at the Sorbonne, 1729-1752 -- The center falters : turmoil and the burgeoning fracture of theological and radical enlightenments -- Prades and the crucible of religious polarization in eighteenth-century France -- The abortive theological enlightenment synthesis of Prades I -- The abortive theological enlightenment synthesis of Prades II : from natural religion to the necessity and historicity of Catholicism -- The scandal at the Sorbonne and the condemnation -- The nadir of theological enlightenment : religious polarization of the eighteenth-century public sphere in the aftermath of the Prades affair -- Prades and the long denouement in Prussia, 1752-1782 -- Appendix : authenticity of the Prades thesis and Apologie
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Prades, Jean-Martin de
SUBJECT Prades, Jean-Martin de fast
Subject Catholic Church -- France -- History -- 18th century
Catholic Church -- History -- 18th century.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Enlightenment -- France
Catholic Church and philosophy -- France -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
Catholic Church and philosophy
Enlightenment
SUBJECT France -- Church history -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051180
Subject France
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010007653
ISBN 9780268075798
0268075794