Enlightenment and the creation of German Catholicism
By: Michael Printy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521478397
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Germany -- History -- 18th century; Enlightenment -- Germany; Germany -- Church history -- 18th century; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Perfect societies : rethinking the church and the state; title: The liberty of the German church : febronianism and  the German Gallicans; title: The German church and the absolute state; title: Church and empire in the eighteenth century; title: Collegialism : the rise of the state and the redefinition of the church; title: The universal church and the universal class; title: Catholic Enlightenment and the search for a bourgeois Catholicism; title: A program for reform; title: Pastors of Enlightenment : reforming the secular clergy; title: Gallican longings : nation and religion in the German Enlightenment.