The Crystallization of Counter-Enlightenment and Philosophe Identities: Theological Controversy and Catholic Enlightenment in Pre-Revolutionary France

• Published in: Church history Vol. 77; no. 4; pp. 955 - 1002
• Main Author: Burson, Jeffrey D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.12.2008; American Society of Church History
• Subjects: 17th-18th century; Age of Enlightenment; Analysis; Authors, English; Cartesianism; Catholic church; Catholicism; Christian history; Christianity; Churches; Clergy; College teachers; Criticism and interpretation; Doctrine and exegesis; Enlightenment; Eternal condemnation; Historians; History and sciences of religions; Israel, Jonathan; McMahon, Darrin; Modern period; Religious aspects; Society of Jesus; Theology; Van Kley, Dale; Works; Enlightenment (The); France; Church; Philosopher; Controversy; Catholic theology

Recent works of modern French history have found it fashionable, when focusing on the eighteenth century from across the jagged shoals of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, to reductively treat Francophone national identity as the dialogical interaction of two related “imagined communities.”...