The rise and fall of theological enlightenment
Subtitle: Jean-Martin de Prades and ideology in eighteenth-century France
By: Jeffrey D. Burson ; foreword by Dale Van Kley.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780268022204
Subjects: Prades, Jean-Martin de; Catholic Church -- France -- History -- 18th century; Catholic Church and philosophy -- France -- History -- 18th century; Enlightenment -- France; France -- Church history -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Perspectives on enlightenment, religion, and the Abbè de Prades : toward a new historiography of theological enlightenment; title: The creation of the Jesuit synthesis : Locke, Malebranche, and the flowering of theological enlightenment; title: The radicalizing enlightenment and the maturation of theological enlightenment to 1750; title: Bringing up the theological enlightenment : life, leisure, philosophy, and culture at the University of Paris and the seminaries, ca. 1730-1755; title: Theological enlightenment at the Sorbonne, 1729-1751; title: The center falters : turmoil and the burgeoning fracture of theological and radical enlightenments; title: Prades and the crucible of religious polarization in eighteenth-century France; title: The abortive theological enlightenment synthesis of Prades I; title: The abortive theological enlightenment synthesis of Prades II : from natural religion to the necessity and historicity of Catholicism; title: The scandal at the Sorbonne and the condemnation; title: The nadir of theological enlightenment : religious polarization of the eighteenth-century public sphere in the aftermath of the Prades affair; title: Prades and the long denouement in Prussia, 1752-1782; title: Appendix : authenticity of the Prades thesis and Apologie.