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The lawyer of the church : Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the clerical response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma / Pablo Mijangos y González.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mexican experiencePublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780803276666
  • 0803276664
  • 0803276648
  • 9780803276642
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lawyer of the church.DDC classification:
  • 282.092 23
LOC classification:
  • BX4705.M97
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Born with the revolution: from los reyes to the lettered city -- Tempering passions: everyday life and curricular formation at the Morelia Seminary -- The grammar of civilization: language, rhetoric, and the shaping of public opinion -- The ways of legitimacy: constitutionalism and church-state relations in el derecho natural -- The defiant bishop: the Catholic Church confronts the liberal reforma -- Distant allies: conservatism and the twilight of the Catholic state.
Summary: Mexico's Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture. The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clergy's response to the Reforma through a study of the life and works of Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía (1810-68), one of the most influential yet least-known figures of the period. By analyzing how Munguía responded to changing political and intellectual scenarios in defense of the clergy's legal preroga.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)980063

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Born with the revolution: from los reyes to the lettered city -- Tempering passions: everyday life and curricular formation at the Morelia Seminary -- The grammar of civilization: language, rhetoric, and the shaping of public opinion -- The ways of legitimacy: constitutionalism and church-state relations in el derecho natural -- The defiant bishop: the Catholic Church confronts the liberal reforma -- Distant allies: conservatism and the twilight of the Catholic state.

Print version record.

Mexico's Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture. The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clergy's response to the Reforma through a study of the life and works of Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía (1810-68), one of the most influential yet least-known figures of the period. By analyzing how Munguía responded to changing political and intellectual scenarios in defense of the clergy's legal preroga.

English.