Publicación/Publication- An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe 1789-1870

Acaba de publicarse en Bloomsbury, la obra colectiva An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe 1789-1870, bajo la coordinación de Aude Attuel-Hallade. El libro cuenta, entre los varios capítulos que lo componen, con una contribución de Francisco Javier Ramón Solans, miembro de AMAPOL, sobre las reacciones del mundo católico español frente a la libertad de conciencia durante el Sexenio Democrático. Reproducimos aquí abajo el resumen e índice de la obra. La editorial proporciona un enlace para previsualizar un extracto del libro.

Vient de paraître, chez l’éditeur Bloomsbury, le volume collectif An Intellectual History of Liberal Catholicism in Western Europe 1789-1870, coordonné par Aude Attuel-Hallade. Le livre comporte, parmi les différents chapitres qui le constituent, une contribution de Francisco Javier Ramón Solans, membre de l’équipe d’AMAPOL, sur les réactions du monde catholique espagnol face à la liberté de conscience durant le Sexennat Démocratique. Ci-dessous le résumé et la table des matières du volume. La page éditeur fournit un lien pour prévisualiser un extrait du volume.

Resumen/Résumé

This volume probes and deciphers the tensions and contradictions that underlie modern European Liberal Catholicism. Beginning with the French revolution and looking at dialogues between European ‘public moralists’, the book discusses the ways in which liberal Catholics loosened their bonds with religion, all the while relying on it. It reflects on how and why they promoted a post-revolutionary state and society based on religious dogma and morality, and what new liberal order and socio-political and religious models they proposed.

Beyond the analysis of the work of these Catholic intellectuals, the question of their conceiving a specific liberal approach through Catholicism is also investigated. More generally, it prompts a vital reappraisal of the political, ideological and philosophical pressures that the religious question caused in the redefinition of Western European post-revolutionary liberalism.

Índice/Table des matières

Liberal Catholicism/Catholic Liberalism: A non-sense? Aude Attuel-Hallade (ed.), Institut Catholique d’Etudes Supérieures (ICES)/Sorbonne Université/Panthéon Sorbonne, France

Part One – Theology, truth and the philosophy of history
1 Political Modernity-Christianity: Interpretative circles Bernard Bourdin, Institut Catholique de Paris, France
2 John Henry Newman, an anti-liberal? Frédéric Libaud, Université de Strasbourg, France
3 Edmund Burke, T.B. Macaulay, Lord Acton and the French Revolution: The Church, the State and the individual Aude Attuel-Hallade

Part Two – Catholicism and liberty(/ies)
4 Liberties before liberalism: Ultramontane political thought in England, c. 1835–50 Colm O’Siochru, Dulwich College, London, UK
5 Historical and ecclesiological foundations of Spanish Catholic liberalism. From the Jansenist imprint to the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 Bernard Callebat, Institut Catholique d’Etudes Supérieures (ICES), France
6 Between Sinai and Calvary: Spanish Catholicism in the face of freedom of worship in 1869 Francisco Javier Ramon Solans, Casa de Velàsquez/Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Part Three – Temporal and spiritual power and education
7 Sin, grace and secular history: Pierre Paul Royer-Collard’s criticism of the anti-sacrilege law of 1825 Daniele Giuseppe Palmer, King’s College Cambridge, UK
8 ‘A free Church in a free state’. The relationship between Church and State in the thought of Charles de Montalembert Arthur Hérisson, Ecole française de Rome, Italy
9 J. H. Newman facing the spirit of the day: A focus on the idea of education in the Victorian context Maud Besnard, Institut Catholique de Rennes, France

Conclusion: Contested faith or contested liberty? – Contexts and strategies of Liberal Catholicism Peter Schröder, University College London (UCL), UK

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