It is widely agreed that protestant scholasticism influenced Kant’s thinking on the question of Divine Providence. But the nature and extent of that influence have never been explored in detail. This is the scholarly lacuna the present volume seeks to fill.

In recent years, historians have rediscovered the religious dimensions of the Enlightenment. This volume offers a thorough reappraisal of the so-called “Catholic Enlightenment” as a transnational Enlightenment movement. This Catholic Enlightenment was at once ultramontane and conciliarist, sometimes moderate but often surprisingly radical, with participants active throughout Europe in universities, seminaries, salons, and the periodical press._ In _Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History_, the contributors, primarily European scholars, provide intellectual biographies of twenty Catholic Enlightenment figures across eighteenth-century Europe, (...) many of them little known in English-language scholarship on the Enlightenment and pre-revolutionary eras. These figures represent not only familiar French intellectuals of the Catholic Enlightenment but also Iberian, Italian, English, Polish, and German thinkers. The essays focus on the intellectual and cultural factors influencing the lives and works of their subjects, revealing the often global networks of intellectual sociability and reading that united them both to the Catholic Enlightenment and to eighteenth-century policies and projects. The volume, whose purpose is to advance the understanding of a transnational "Catholic Enlightenment," will be a reliable reference for historians, theologians, and scholars working in religious studies. "This is a compelling collection on an important subject. Its transnational and biographical approach helps one to see eighteenth-century Catholicism and the Enlightenment itself in fresh and interesting ways." — Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University_. (shrink)

This book present the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe by a group of leading international scholars.

This book present the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe by a group of leading international scholars.

Despite the importance the monks had as carriers of programmatic Enlightenment ideas, few of their original texts are available in modern editions. This edition contributes to filling this lacuna by publishing Dom Beda Mayr’s ecumenical Catholic theology.

An image of God that isn't true -- The God of creation -- The God of no use -- The God of our imagination -- The God of thunder -- The God of terror -- The God of surrender -- The God of intimacy -- The God of consolation -- The God of incarnation -- The God of rebirth -- The adventurous God.

Die Frage nach dem Wesen und Wert menschlicher Erkenntnis ist so alt wie die Philosophie selbst. In diesem Band erortern in zwanzig Beitragen namhafte Philosophen und Theologen aus dem In-und Ausland Fragen der Erkenntnistheorie in systematischer wie philosophiehistorischer Perspektive. Zum einen stehen dabei Grundfragen der Erkenntnistheorie im Blickfeld, wie etwa der grundsatzlichen Frage nach Wahrheit und Methode, Erinnerungsvermogen oder dem der Evidenz. Zum anderen erortert ein zweiter Themenkreis spezielle Themen wie dem der Wesenserkenntnis, Analogie und Personalitat. Ein dritter Kreis umfasst (...) Fragen nach der Existenz der Welt und der Bedeutung des Realismus fur die Ethik. Dem anschliessend befassen sich weitere Beitrage mit der Religionsphilosophie, insbesondere der Bedeutung naturlicher Gotteserkenntnis und dem Begriff des Wunders. Zu guter Letzt geht ein letzter Themenkreis auf spezifisch theologische Probleme der Erkenntnislehre ein, die sich in der katholischen Tradition ergeben, wie etwa dem Verhaltnis des Philosophen zu Christus, oder dem Vorherwissen Gottes. (shrink)