The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment [Recurso electrónico] : Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France / Jeffrey D. Burson ; foreword by Dale Van Kley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Perspectives on enlightenment, religion, and the Abbe 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, 1729-1752 -- 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.

Libro Electrónico

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