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Author | : Emile Perreau-Saussine |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2023-05-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691248168 |
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How the Catholic Church redefined its relationship to the state in the wake of the French Revolution Catholicism and Democracy is a history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to the present day. Emile Perreau-Saussine investigates the church's response to liberal democracy, a political system for which the church was utterly unprepared. Looking at leading philosophers and political theologians—among them Joseph de Maistre, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Charles Péguy—Perreau-Saussine shows how the church redefined its relationship to the state in the long wake of the French Revolution. Disenfranchised by the fall of the monarchy, the church in France at first embraced that most conservative of ideologies, "ultramontanism" (an emphasis on the central role of the papacy). Catholics whose church had lost its national status henceforth looked to the papacy for spiritual authority. Perreau-Saussine argues that this move paradoxically combined a fundamental repudiation of the liberal political order with an implicit acknowledgment of one of its core principles, the autonomy of the church from the state. However, as Perreau-Saussine shows, in the context of twentieth-century totalitarianism, the Catholic Church retrieved elements of its Gallican heritage and came to embrace another liberal (and Gallican) principle, the autonomy of the state from the church, for the sake of its corollary, freedom of religion. Perreau-Saussine concludes that Catholics came to terms with liberal democracy, though not without abiding concerns about the potential of that system to compromise freedom of religion in the pursuit of other goals.
Author | : John Edward Courtenay Bodley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104482657 |
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Author | : Robert Willis |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Church renewal |
ISBN | : 0595379222 |
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Crisis grips the American Catholic community. Church professionals abandon it in record numbers while many who remain grapple with low morale, overwork, and compensatory addictions. Schools either close or laypeople staff them. Parishes consolidate, bereft of pastors and communicants. The people itself lies fragmented, a landscape of polarized groups, a kaleidoscope of political partisans more than gatherings of the faithful. Its future hangs in the balance. Current leaders fixate on two plans. In one they march steadfastly into the past, pursuing the illusion of a remnant group of the righteous armored by uniformity, a sorry substitute for a religious community. In another they resolutely protect the status quo. Before the eyes of an incredulous people they are transforming the church into a museum of religious artifacts, a fitting destination for inquisitive tourists, occasional visitors, and the uninvolved. The author offers a third alternative. Calling upon the democratic attempts of John Carroll and John England, the incisive comments of Tocqueville about religion in a democracy, and the theology of Vatican II, he challenges bishops to forsake their status as minor lords in a medieval monarchy and, instead, to embrace a servant leadership within the People of God.
Author | : John Edward Courtenay Bodley |
Publisher | : Baltimore : J. Murphy |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1890 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : William B. Prendergast |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780878407248 |
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Once a keystone of the Democratic Party, American Catholics are today helping to put Republicans in office. This book traces changes in party allegiance and voting behavior of Catholics in national elections over the course of 150 years and explains why much of the voting bloc that supported John F. Kennedy has deserted the Democratic coalition. William B. Prendergast analyzes the relationship between Catholics and the GOP from the 1840s to 1990s. He documents a developing attachment of Catholics to Republican candidates beginning early in this century and shows that, before Kennedy, Catholics helped elect Eisenhower, returned to the polls in support of Nixon and Reagan, and voted for a Republican Congress in 1994. To account for this shifting allegiance, Prendergast analyzes transformations in the Catholic population, the parties, and the political environment. He attributes these changes to the Americanization of immigrants, the socioeconomic and educational advancement of Catholics, and the emergence of new issues. He also cites the growth of ecumenicism, the influence of Vatican II, the abatement of Catholic-Protestant hostility, and the decline of anti-Catholicism in the Republican party. Clearly demonstrating a Catholic move toward political independence, Prendergast's work reveals both the realignment of voters and the influence of religious beliefs in the political arena. Provocative and informative, it confirms the opinion of pollsters that no candidate can take the vote of the largest and most diverse religious group in the nation for granted.
Author | : Chris Korzen |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2009-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0470370211 |
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On the eve of the most important presidential election in decades, A NATION FOR ALL sounds the trumpet to the tens of millions of U.S. Catholics who have refused to buy the notion that people of faith must subscribe to the narrow agenda of the far right. By shining the light of authentic Catholic teaching on pressing contemporary concerns like war, human dignity, poverty, and the looming global climate crisis, this book shows Catholics how their own faith tradition calls them to tackle a sweeping array of issues commonly left out of the faith and politics dialog. Most important, A NATION FOR ALL demonstrates how the core Catholic and Christian belief in promoting the common good can provide Americans of all faith traditions with a much-needed solution to the downward spiral of greed, materialism, and excessive individualism.
Author | : Jay P. Corrin |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2010-12-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0268159289 |
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Tracing the development of progressive Catholic approaches to political and economic modernization, Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy disputes standard interpretations of the Catholic response to democracy and modernity in the English-speaking world—particularly the conventional view that the Church was the servant of right-wing reactionaries and authoritarian, patriarchal structures. Starting with the writings of Bishop Wilhelm von Ketteler of Germany, the Frenchman Frédérick Ozanam, and England’s Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, whose pioneering work laid the foundation of the Catholic "third way," Corrin reveals a long tradition within Roman Catholicism that championed social activism. These visionary writers were the forerunners of Pope John XXIII’s aggiornamento, a call for Catholics to broaden their historical perspectives and move beyond a static theology fixed to the past. By examining this often overlooked tradition, Corrin attempts to confront the perception that Catholicism in the modern age has invariably been an institution of reaction that is highly suspicious of liberalism and progressive social reform. Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy charts the efforts of key Catholic intellectuals, primarily in Britain and the United States, who embraced the modern world and endeavored to use the legacies of their faith to form an alternative, pluralistic path that avoided both socialist collectivism and capitalism. In this sweeping volume, Corrin discusses the influences of Cecil and G. K. Chesterton, H. A. Reinhold, Hilaire Belloc, and many others on the development of Catholic social, economic, and political thought, with a special focus on Belloc and Reinhold as representatives of reactionary and progressive positions, respectively. He also provides an in-depth analysis of Catholic Distributists’ responses to the labor unrest in Britain prior to World War I and later, in the 1930s, to the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War and the forces of fascism and communism.
Author | : J. E. C. Bodley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2015-07-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781331273134 |
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Excerpt from The Catholic Democracy and America: Two Essays on the Position, Growth, and Influence of the Roman Catholic in the United States The accompanying Pamphlet is a reprint from two articles which have recently appeared, the former in the Nineteenth Century, the latter in the Edinburgh Review. Since Macaulay's splendid Essays of a half century ago, few contributions to current literature have excited so much interest, or elicited so much praise as have marked the appearance of these articles. They have been widely copied, and favorably commented upon by the friends and foes of Catholicism in the English-speaking world, and I learn that a French and German translation of these papers has been published in Europe. By a masterly grasp of thought, Mr. Bodley has compressed into seventy-seven pages, the salient points of a century of our Church's history. He has given us a graphic and an interesting sketch of the rise and development and prosperity of the Catholic religion in the United States, together with the leading causes that have contributed to its marvellous extension. And this he has done in a style at once so attractive and entertaining, so luminous and perspicuous as to absorb the attention and delight the fancy of the reader from beginning to end. Should the Catholic reader meet with an expression here and there to which he would hesitate to subscribe, he should remember that the author is a Protestant; and indeed it is rarely that a production so free from bias, so broad and fair-minded has ever emanated from a non-Catholic pen. So warm indeed and sympathetic is the tone of the articles that several critics were led to believe that the writer was of the household of the faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Paul Blanshard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Edward Courtenay Bodley |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781358188886 |
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