Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism (Paperback, Reissue)

1. Introduction; Part I. Perfect Societies: Rethinking the Church and the State: 2. The liberty of the German church: Febronianism and the German Gallicans; 3. The German church and the absolute state; 4. Church and empire in the eighteenth century; 5. Collegialism: the rise of the state, and the redefinition of the church; Part II. The Universal Church and the University Class: 6. Catholic enlightenment and the search for a bourgeois Catholicism; 7. A program for reform; 8. Pastors of enlightenment: reforming the secular clergy; 9. Gallican longings: nation and religion in the German enlightenment; 10. Conclusion.