Author: Daniel J. Watkins
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228007860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu was an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French, the Histoire promoted progress, the pursuit of happiness, the fundamental goodness of humanity, and the capacity of nature to shape moral human beings. Berruyer aimed to update the Bible for a new age, but his work unleashed a furor that ended with the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of Berruyer's Histoire, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within the church and between the church and the French state. Berruyer's Bible flips the traditional narrative of the Enlightenment on its head by showing that the secularization of French society and the political decline of the Catholic Church were due not solely to the external assaults of anti-clerical philosophes but also to the internal discord caused by Catholic theologians themselves. Built upon extensive research in archives across Western Europe and the United States, Berruyer's Bible paints a vivid picture of the tumultuous intellectual world of the Catholic Church and the power of radical ideas that shaped the church throughout the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and beyond.
Berruyer's Bible
Author: Daniel J. Watkins
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228007860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu was an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French, the Histoire promoted progress, the pursuit of happiness, the fundamental goodness of humanity, and the capacity of nature to shape moral human beings. Berruyer aimed to update the Bible for a new age, but his work unleashed a furor that ended with the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of Berruyer's Histoire, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within the church and between the church and the French state. Berruyer's Bible flips the traditional narrative of the Enlightenment on its head by showing that the secularization of French society and the political decline of the Catholic Church were due not solely to the external assaults of anti-clerical philosophes but also to the internal discord caused by Catholic theologians themselves. Built upon extensive research in archives across Western Europe and the United States, Berruyer's Bible paints a vivid picture of the tumultuous intellectual world of the Catholic Church and the power of radical ideas that shaped the church throughout the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and beyond.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228007860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu was an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French, the Histoire promoted progress, the pursuit of happiness, the fundamental goodness of humanity, and the capacity of nature to shape moral human beings. Berruyer aimed to update the Bible for a new age, but his work unleashed a furor that ended with the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of Berruyer's Histoire, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within the church and between the church and the French state. Berruyer's Bible flips the traditional narrative of the Enlightenment on its head by showing that the secularization of French society and the political decline of the Catholic Church were due not solely to the external assaults of anti-clerical philosophes but also to the internal discord caused by Catholic theologians themselves. Built upon extensive research in archives across Western Europe and the United States, Berruyer's Bible paints a vivid picture of the tumultuous intellectual world of the Catholic Church and the power of radical ideas that shaped the church throughout the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and beyond.
Mandement de monseigneur l'archevêque de Paris, portant condamnation de plusieurs libelles qui ont pour titre : Nouvelles ecclésiastiques
Author: Charles-Gaspard-Guillaume de Vintimille Du Luc
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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Mandement de Monseigneur l'Archevêque de Paris, portant condamnation de plusieurs libelles qui ont pour titre: Nouvelles ecclésiastiques
Author: Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille Du Luc
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 7
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 7
Book Description
Mandement de Monseigneur l'Archevêque de Paris [C.G.G. de Vintimille du Luc], portant condamnation de plusieurs Libelles qui ont pour Titre: Nouvelles Ecclésiastiques..
Author: Charles-Gaspard-Guillaume de Vintimille du Luc
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 2
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Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 2
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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About the Contemplative Life
Author: Philo (of Alexandria.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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The Cult at the End of the World
Author: David E. Kaplan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099728511
Category : Armageddon
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099728511
Category : Armageddon
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
Author: RICHARD. SIMON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033286210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033286210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Great Historical Geographical and Poetical Dictionary
Author: Louis Moreri
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415200462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415200462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Words of a Believer
Author: Félicité Robert de Lamennais
Publisher:
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Category : Christian socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Publisher:
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Category : Christian socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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