Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 450 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-15394-0
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Catholicism and Democracy is 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 Péguy--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). Catholics whose church had lost its national status henceforth looked to the papacy for spiritual authority. Perreau-Saussine argues that this move paradoxically combined a fundamental repudiation of the liberal political order with an implicit acknowledgment of one of its core principles, the autonomy of the church from the state. However, as Perreau-Saussine shows, in the context of twentieth-century totalitarianism, the Catholic Church retrieved elements of its Gallican heritage and came to embrace another liberal (and Gallican) principle, the autonomy of the state from the church, for the sake of its corollary, freedom of religion. Perreau-Saussine concludes that Catholics came to terms with liberal democracy, though not without abiding concerns about the potential of that system to compromise freedom of religion in the pursuit of other goals.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword by Alasdair MacIntyre vii
Introduction 1
Part I. A New Role for the Papacy: The Origins of Vatican I 5
Chapter 1. From Bossuet to Maistre: The Deconfessionalization of the State
as a Political Problem 7
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy 7
The Autonomy of the Temporal Power in Relation to the Church 15
The Alliance of Church and State as a Matrix of Intolerance 22
The Inadequacy of Spiritual Constraints and the Need for Temporal
Constraints 26
The French Revolution through the Lens of Political Theology 30
Chapter 2. The Collapse of Reactionary Ultramontanism 37
Napoleon?s Miscalculations 37
Felicite de Lamennais on the Atheism of the Law 46
Against Political Theology 51
A Papacy Refocused on Its Spiritual Role 58
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Preservation of Gallicanism 69
Part II. A New Role for the Laity: The Origins of Vatican II 81
Chapter 3. Intolerant Secularism and Liberal Secularism 83
Auguste Comte: From Papal Infallibility to the Infallibility of Science 84
Laicism as Statism 88
Two Kinds of Laicity 95
Emile Littre?s "Catholicism of Universal Suffrage" 99
Charles Peguy: The Eternal Dwelling in the Temporal 103
Chapter 4. The Political Virtues of Moderation 109
Neither Maurras nor Marx 109
The Political Role of the Laity 117
Freedom of Religion as the Cornerstone of Catholic Political Thought 127
A Degree of Disenchantment since Vatican II 132
A Positive Idea of Laicity 141
Conclusion 147
Notes 153
Index 179
