Author: Charles H. O'Brien
Publisher: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Ole Peter Grell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521651964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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This 1999 book is a systematic pan-European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth-century Europe.

Author: David Sorkin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691188181
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith. In The Religious Enlightenment, David Sorkin alters our understanding by showing that the Enlightenment, at its heart, was religious in nature. Sorkin examines the lives and ideas of influential Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic theologians of the Enlightenment, such as William Warburton in England, Moses Mendelssohn in Prussia, and Adrien Lamourette in France, among others. He demonstrates that, in the century before the French Revolution, the major religions of Europe gave rise to movements of renewal and reform that championed such hallmark Enlightenment ideas as reasonableness and natural religion, toleration and natural law. Calvinist enlightened orthodoxy, Jewish Haskalah, and reform Catholicism, to name but three such movements, were influential participants in the eighteenth century's burgeoning public sphere and promoted a new ideal of church-state relations. Sorkin shows how they pioneered a religious Enlightenment that embraced the new science of Copernicus and Newton and the philosophy of Descartes, Locke, and Christian Wolff, uniting reason and revelation to renew faith and piety. This book reveals how Enlightenment theologians refashioned belief as a solution to the dogmatism and intolerance of previous centuries. Read it and you will never view the Enlightenment the same way.

Author: William David Bowman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9780391040946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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"Priest and Parish in Vienna, 1780 to 1880" details the social, cultural, and political transformation of the Austrian Catholic priesthood in nineteenth-century Vienna. It shows how priests, a very important and influential group in Austria, were changed from servants of the state into political activists working for the contentious Christian Social Party in fin-de-siecle Vienna.

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371367
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371275
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371343
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422371282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Author: Shmuel Feiner
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025306516X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 607

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The second volume of Shmuel Feiner's The Jewish Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1750 to 1800, a time of even greater upheavals, tensions, and challenges. The changes that began to emerge at the beginning of the eighteenth century matured in the second half. Feiner explores how political considerations of the Jewish minority throughout Europe began to expand. From the "Jew Bill" of 1753 in Britain, to the surprising series of decrees issued by Joseph II of Austria that expanded tolerance in Austria, to the debate over emancipation in revolutionary France, the lives of the Jews of Europe became ever more intertwined with the political, social, economic, and cultural fabric of the continent. The Jewish Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: A European Biography, 1750–1800 concludes Feiner's landmark study of the history of Jewish populations in the period. By combining an examination of the broad and profound processes that changed the familiar world from the ground up with personal experiences of those who lived through them, it allows for a unique explanation of these momentous events.