The Catholic Church in the modern world : a survey from the French Revolution to the present

Hales, E. E. Y. (Edward Elton Young), 1908-1986, author.

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"From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, the Catholic Church and modernity seem to be two entities inextricably at odds with one another. Modernity, for better or worse, stands for change; the Church, for stasis. Following the upheaval of the French Revolution, the Church has been 'striving to sift the wheat from the chaff amongst the new ideas' of modernity. Surveying the two centuries from the pre-revolutionary ancien regime to the...

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ISBN:

9781952826559
1952826551

Edition:

Cluny Media edition

Description:

iii, 290 pages ; 22 cm

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Notes:

"This Cluny edition is a republication of the 1960 Doubleday & Company, Inc. edition of The Catholic Church in the Modern World: A Survey from the French Revolution to the Present"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290)

Contents:

Preface
The ancien regime (before 1789)
The French revolution (1789-1799)
Napoleon (1799-1815)
The Restoration of 1815
Rome versus revolution (1815-1832)
The argument about freedom: Lamennais; Merican (1831-1846)
Pius IX and Mazzini (1846-1850)
Progress in Protestant Europe (1850-1854)
The loss of the Papal States (1858-1870)
The syllabus of errors (1864)
The Vatican Council and the loss of Rome (1870)
The church in America before the Irish immigration (to 1830)
The church in America after the Irish immigration (1830-1890)
The "American Heresy" (1890-1900)
Modernism (1893-1907)
Leo XIII and the social question: Rerum Novarum (1878-1903)
Rerum Novarum in the Twentieth Century
The Kulturkampf in Germany (1870-1890)
Anti-clericism in Italy and France (1870-1914)
The British Empire, Europe, and the First World War
The Americas in the Twentieth Century
Mussolini, Hitler, and Pius XI (1922-1939)
Communism, peace, and Pius XII (1939-1956)
Bibliographical guide

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3328750

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