What are the continuities and discontinuities between scholarly practices from 16th-century humanism to the 18th-century Enlightenment? Could a Catholic truly be enlightened if doubt must accede to ...

Pope Benedict XVI has spoken numerous times about the Enlightenment as an ongoing challenge to the Catholic Church. Indeed, Benedict debated the idea of the Enlightenment with Habermas in a work ...

Most people would think that the idea of a Catholic Enlightenment was a contradiction in terms. Was not the Enlightenment essentially anti-religious and specifically anti-Catholic? Did not the ...

As an heir to the 18th-century Enlightenment, he thrives on anti ... It’s a hoax fervently promoted by anti-Catholic skeptics who make no apologies for being chronological snobs.

Dale Van Kley has restored religion, and particularly Jansenism, the major Catholic reform movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to our understanding of the French Enlightenment and ...

Why is it that we always hear, ad nauseam, about Galileo and how he was persecuted by the Catholic Church for saying that the earth went around the sun? Well, there are two reasons: it makes for ...

2024 CRGC Conference (in partnership with Washington University in St. Louis): "The Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, the Americas and Australia (1700-1840): Balancing Loyalties Between State, ...

Anti-Catholic propaganda as entertainment came ... and transubstantiation felt to a world embracing the new ideas of the Enlightenment.

Yet newly cut off from state power and dismayed by the Enlightenment’s stress on individualism, Catholic leaders in France, especially, responded to an urbanizing industrial age by erecting what ...

This would culminate in the Protestant Reformation. The Enlightenment was the age of the triumph of science (Newton, Leibniz, Bacon) and of philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire ...

By liberalism, he meant the broad Enlightenment tradition of liberty ... In a bold work of political imagination, some conservative Catholic intellectuals met Deneen’s diagnosis with an ...