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Catholicism and Democracy - An Essay in the History of Political Thought (Paperback)
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Catholicism and Democracy - An Essay in the History of Political Thought (Paperback)
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How the Catholic Church redefined its relationship to the state in
the wake of the French Revolution 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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