Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines 1740–1803. By Ulrich L. Lehner
This fascinating and absorbing book concerns the influence of ‘Enlightenment’ ideas and social, cultural, and philosophical challenges on the monks of Southern and Middle Germany and Austria between approximately 1740 and 1803. It is a model study of how one should approach the history of the religi...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Oxford University Press
2014
|
| In: |
The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 345-348 |
| Review of: | Enlightened monks (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2011) (Gribbin, Anselm J.)
|
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
|
| Online Access: |
Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This fascinating and absorbing book concerns the influence of ‘Enlightenment’ ideas and social, cultural, and philosophical challenges on the monks of Southern and Middle Germany and Austria between approximately 1740 and 1803. It is a model study of how one should approach the history of the religious orders holistically, and is concerned with more than abstract theories and ideas, important though they may be. Lehner has produced a detailed insight into the life of the German Benedictines, and the struggles between tradition and innovation, and ecclesiastical and wider social, ‘secular’, boundaries. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt220 |