Author: Daniel J. Watkins
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228007860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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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.
Ordonnance et Instruction pastorale
Author: François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon
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Ordonnance et instruction pastorale
Author: Catholic Church. Diocese of Chartres (France). Bishop (1692-1709 : Godet des Marais)
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Category : Theology
Languages : fr
Pages : 320
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Ordonnance et instruction pastorale
Author: Charles Joachim Colbert de Croissi (Evêque de Montpellier.)
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Ordonnance et instruction pastorale ... sur les états d'oraison
Author: Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
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Languages : fr
Pages : 24
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Pages : 24
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Ordonnance et instruction pastorale de monseigneur l'archevesque de Paris. Portant condamnation du livre intitulé, Exposition de la foy, touchant la grace & la prédestination, imprimé à Mons chez Gaspard Migeot
Author: Église catholique. Diocèse (Paris).
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Languages : fr
Pages : 12
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Ordonnance et instruction pastorale de Monseigneur l'evêque d'Auxerre, portant condamnation de plusieurs propositions extraites des cahiers dictés au College d'Auxerre, par le Frere Le Moyne de la Compagnie de Jesus
Ordonnance et instruction pastorale de monseigneur l'évêque de Soissons, au sujet des assertions extraites par le Parlement, des livres, theses, cahiers, composés, publié & dictés par les Jesuites
Author: Francois : de Fitz-James
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Pages : 42
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Instruction pastorale et Ordonnance ... portant defense de lire et de garder divers ecrits publiez sous le nom de M. l'Evêque de Montpellier
Ordonnance et instruction pastorale ... portant condamnation de deux ouvrages, dont l'un a pour titre: Histoire du peuple de Dieu ... par ... Isaac-Joseph Berruyer ... L'autore: Remonstrance à ... l'evêque d'Auxerre, au sujet de son Ordonnance & instruction pastorale
Author: Charles Joachim Colbert de Croissy (bp. of Montpellier.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 214
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