An Intellectual History Of Liberalcatholicism In Western Europe17891870 Aude Attuelhallade by Aude Attuel-hallade 9781350371040, 1350371041 instant download after payment.

The existing scholarship on Liberal Catholicism is far from coherent and consistent.1
This is presumably not that surprising, given that the term itself was contested from its
very inception in the nineteenth century. It emerged during the controversial thinking
about the relation between the Catholic creed and the French Revolution. Coined
by those who used Liberal Catholicism as a self-referential concept to denote the
positive relationship between Catholicism and emerging bourgeois liberal thinking,
Liberal Catholicism was equally used in a derogatory fashion by those who intended
to turn back the results of the post-revolutionary period. Liberal Catholicism is thus
not a neutral concept but a contested combat term in the political field. The general
perception of Catholicism, in particular in the political domain of the nineteenth
century, is not that nuanced. Catholicism is often simply perceived as traditional and
conservative, if not as reactionary and counter-revolutionary. It is the considerable
merit of this volume to provide a much more discerning picture, and to open the
debate about Liberal Catholicism beyond the specialized scholarly studies and to put it
on the research agenda of nineteenth-century political thought.