The Church In The Age Of Absolution And Enlightenment PDF Download

Excerpt from The Church and the Age: An Exposition of the Catholic Church in View of the Needs and Aspirations of the Present Age This book is made up of twelve articles, which fall into five general divisions. The first division, consisting of five articles, treats of the Catholic Church in relation to races, nations, and epochs, dealing with the subject at first in general and then more particularly of Church and State in America, Italy, and France. The second general division, beginning with the sixth article, is mainly devoted to the concord of the interior action of the Holy Spirit in each particular soul with His exterior action in the public authority of the Church; it embraces the articles entitled respectively "St. Catherine of Genoa," "Catholicity and the Tendencies of the Age," and "The Experiment of Protestantism." The fourth division - articles ix. and x. - treats of orthodox and historical Protestantism, and the fifth - articles xi. and xii. - of Unitarianism and Transcendentalism. But as the same general principles run through them all, the articles have not been marked off into these general divisions, but are numbered consecutively from first to last. Intelligence and liberty are not a hindrance but a help to religious life; only false religion has reason to fear the spread of enlightenment and the enjoyment of our free civil institutions; while intellectual development and civil liberty have accelerated more than anything else the decay of Protestantism, they are calculated more than any other human environments to advance at the present time the progress of true supernatural life among men. 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.