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Printy, Michael O'Neill.

Enlightenment and the creation of German Catholicism / Michael Printy. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-241) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511508219 0511508212 9780511575587 0511575580 9780521478397 0521478391 0511506562 9780511506567

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Catholic Church--History--Germany--18th century.
Catholic Church
Katholische Kirche

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1700-1799

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Enlightenment--Germany.
Siècle des Lumières--Allemagne.
RELIGION--Christianity--Catholic.
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Aufklärung
Katholische Kirche.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany--Church history--18th century.
Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.
Allemagne--Histoire religieuse--18e siècle.
Allemagne--Vie intellectuelle--18e siècle.
Germany
Deutschland

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Church history
History

LC Class. No.: BX1534 / .P75 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 282/.4309033