The rise and fall of theological enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and ideological polarization in eighteenth-century France

Perspectives on enlightenment, religion, and the Abbáe de Prades : toward a new historiography of theological enlightenment -- The creation of the Jesuit synthesis : Locke, Malebranche, and the flowering of theological enlightenment -- The radicalizing enlightenment and the maturation of theological...

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Main Author: Burson, Jeffrey D. 1976- (Author)
Contributors: Van Kley, Dale K. 1941-2023 (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Press c 2010
In:Year: 2010
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Prades, Jean-Martin de 1720-1782
B France / Catholic church / Counter-Enlightenment / Enlightenment
B France / Catholic theology / Enlightenment
Further subjects:B Catholic Church and philosophy (France) History 18th century
B Prades, Jean-Martin de
B Catholic Church (France) History 18th century
B Catholic Church and philosophy History 18th century France
B France Church history 18th century
B Catholic Church History 18th century France
B Enlightenment (France)
B France Church history 18th century
B Enlightenment France
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Summary:Perspectives on enlightenment, religion, and the Abbáe de Prades : toward a new historiography of theological enlightenment -- The creation of the Jesuit synthesis : Locke, Malebranche, and the flowering of theological enlightenment -- The radicalizing enlightenment and the maturation of theological enlightenment to 1750 -- Bringing up the theological enlightenment : life, leisure, philosophy, and culture at the University of Paris and the seminaries, ca. 1730-1755 -- Theological enlightenment at the Sorbonne, 1729-1751 -- The center falters : turmoil and the burgeoning fracture of theological and radical enlightenments -- Prades and the crucible of religious polarization in eighteenth-century France -- The abortive theological enlightenment synthesis of Prades I -- The abortive theological enlightenment synthesis of Prades II : from natural religion to the necessity and historicity of Catholicism -- The scandal at the Sorbonne and the condemnation -- The nadir of theological enlightenment : religious polarization of the eighteenth-century public sphere in the aftermath of the Prades affair -- Prades and the long denouement in Prussia, 1752-1782 -- Appendix : authenticity of the Prades thesis and Apologie
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0268022208