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1 online resource (x, 482 pages.) |
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Introduction: Catholicism and Enlightenment, past, present, and future / Jeffrey D. Burson -- Catholic Enlightenment and the papacy. Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758): the ambivalent enlightener / Mario Rosa -- Catholicism and the siècle des lumières in France and Savoy. Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (1718-1790): an enlightened anti-philosophe / Jeffrey D. Burson -- Giacinto Sigismondo Cardinal Gerdil (1718-1802): Enlightenment as cultural and religious achievement / Dries Vanysacker -- Adrien Lamourette (1742-1794): the unconventional revolutionary and reformer / Caroline Chopelin-Blanc -- Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821): heir of the Enlightenment, enemy of revolutions, and spiritual progressivist / Carolina Armenteros -- Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854): lost sheep of the religious Enlightenment / Carolina Armenteros -- Catholic Enlightenment in the Holy Roman Empire. Benedict Stattler (1728-1797): the reinvention of Catholic theology with the help of Wolffian metaphysics ; Beda Mayr (1742-1794): ecumenism and dialogue with modern thought / Ulrich L. Lehner -- Catholicism, Enlightenment, and Habsburg Europe. Franz Stephan Rautenstrauch (1734-1785): church reform for the sake of the state / Thomas Wallnig -- Johann Pezzl (1756-1823): Enlightenment in the satirical mode / Ritchie Robertson -- Varieties of Italian Catholic Enlightenment. Lodovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750): Enlightenment in a Tridentine mode / Paola Vismara -- Antonio Genovesi (1713-1769): reform through commerce and renewed natural law / Niccolò Guasti -- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799): science and mysticism / Massimo Mazzotti -- Catholicism, Enlightenment, and the Iberian states. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y Montenegro (1676-1764): Benedictine and skeptic enlightener / Francisco Sánchez-Blanco -- Josep Climent i Avinent (1706-1781): enlightened Catholic, civic humanist, seditionist / Andrea J. Smidt -- Transnational trajectories: the intersection of Irish, French, Italian, and Habsburg developments. Ruggiero Boscovich (1711-1787): Jesuit science in an Enlightenment context / Jonathan A. Wright -- Luke Joseph Hooke (1714-1796): theological tolerance in an apologetic mold / Thomas O'Connor -- Catholicism in Protestant territorial-dynastic states: Scottish and English Enlightenment variations. Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686-1743): Catholic freethinking and enlightened mysticism / Gabriel Glickman -- Alexander Geddes (1737-1802): biblical criticism, ecclesistical democracy, and Jacobinism / Mark Goldie -- The Polish Catholic Enlightenment. Stanisław Konarski (1700-1772): a Polish Machiavelli? / Jerzy Lukowski -- Hugo Kołłątaj (1750-1812): the revolutionary priest / Anna Łysiak-Łątkowska |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Description based on print version record |
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Catholic Church -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Catholic Church -- History -- 18th century.
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Catholic Church fast |
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Katholische Kirche gnd |
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Enlightenment -- Europe
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Enlightenment
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Intellectual life
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Aufklärung
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Katholizismus
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Europe -- Church history -- 18th century
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
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Europe
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Europa
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Church history
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History
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Electronic book
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Burson, Jeffrey D., editor
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Lehner, Ulrich L., 1976- editor.
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9780268075958 |
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0268075956 |
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