Catholicism and Democracy An Essay in the History of Political Thought

Name: Catholicism and Democracy An Essay in the History of Political Thought
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ISBN: 9780691153940

ISBN-10: 0691153949

ISBN-13: 9780691153940

Edition: 2012

Authors: Emile Perreau-Saussine

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Catholicism and Democracyis a history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to the present day. Emile Perreau-Saussine investigates the church's response to liberal democracy, a political system for which the church was utterly unprepared.Looking at leading philosophers and political theologians--among them Joseph de Maistre, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Charles Pguy--Perreau-Saussine shows how the church redefined its relationship to the State in the long wake of the French Revolution. Disenfranchised by the fall of the monarchy, the church in France at first embraced that most conservative of ideologies, "ultramontanism" (an emphasis on the central role of the papacy).…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.41" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Emile Perreau-Saussine (1972-2010) was a lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He was the author of "Alasdair MacIntyre."



Foreword



Introduction



A New Role for the Papacy: The Origins of Vatican I



From Bossuet to Maistre: The Deconfessionalization of the State as a Political Problem


The Civil Constitution of the Clergy


The Autonomy of the Temporal Power in Relation to the Church


The Alliance of Church and State as a Matrix of Intolerance


The Inadequacy of Spiritual Constraints and the Need for Temporal Constraints


The French Revolution through the Lens of Political Theology



The Collapse of Reactionary Ultramontanism


Napoleons Miscalculations


Fï¿½licitï¿½ de Lamennais on the Atheism of the Law


Against Political Theology


A Papacy Refocused on Its Spiritual Role


Alexis de Tocqueville and the Preservation of Gallicanism



A New Role for the Laity: The Origins of Vatican II



Intolerant Secularism and Liberal Secularism


Auguste Comte: From Papal Infallibility to the Infallibility of Science


Laicism as Statism


Two Kinds of Laicity


Emile Littrï¿½'s "Catholicism of Universal Suffrage"


Charles Pï¿½guy: The Eternal Dwelling in the Temporal



The Political Virtues of Moderation


Neither Maurras nor Marx


The Political Role of the Laity


Freedom of Religion as the Cornerstone of Catholic Political Thought


A Degree of Disenchantment since Vatican II


A Positive Idea of Laicity


Conclusion


Notes


Index