Cinquième lettre pastorale au Clergé de son diocèse
Author : Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy
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Release : 1723
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Author : Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy
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File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 1723
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Author : Charly Coleman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080479121X
France in the eighteenth century glittered, but also seethed, with new goods and new ideas. In the halls of Versailles, the streets of Paris, and the soul of the Enlightenment itself, a vitriolic struggle was being waged over the question of ownership—of property, of position, even of personhood. Those who championed man's possession of material, spiritual, and existential goods faced the successive assaults of radical Christian mystics, philosophical materialists, and political revolutionaries. The Virtues of Abandon traces the aims and activities of these three seemingly disparate groups, and the current of anti-individualism that permeated theology, philosophy, and politics throughout the period. Fired by the desire to abandon the self, men and women sought new ways to relate to God, nature, and nation. They joined illicit mystic cults that engaged in rituals of physical mortification and sexual license, committed suicides in the throes of materialist fatalism, drank potions to induce consciousness-altering dreams, railed against the degrading effects of unfettered consumption, and ultimately renounced the feudal privileges that had for centuries defined their social existence. The explosive denouement was the French Revolution, during which God and king were toppled from their thrones.
Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271047798
Joseph Byrnes recounts the fights and reconciliations between French citizens who found Catholicism integral to their traditional French identity and those who found the continued presence of Catholicism an obstacle to both happiness and progress.
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 1872
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 960 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 1881
Category : English literature
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Author : Catholic Church. Diocese of Nîmes. Bishop (1855-1875 : Plantier)
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1865
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Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0271060980
The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1899
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Page : 910 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Maurice Larkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1349018511