Carol E. Harrison
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452451
- eISBN:
- 9780801470592
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452451.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter explores Félicité de Lamennais's influence on French Catholics as it follows Charles de Montalembert's passage to adulthood. It considers how Montalembert used the platform of L'Avenir, ...
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This chapter explores Félicité de Lamennais's influence on French Catholics as it follows Charles de Montalembert's passage to adulthood. It considers how Montalembert used the platform of L'Avenir, Lamennais's newspaper, to argue that Catholicism should embrace liberty. It also discusses the impact of Pope Gregory XVI's condemnation of Lamennais's teaching on Montalembert's life. It highlights the difficulties of Catholicism for many postrevolutionary men that were evident in Montalembert's efforts to combine the citizen's independent judgment with the Catholic's humble submission to authority. Finally, it analyzes Montalembert's notion of Catholic citizenship as well as his response to the dilemma of autonomy and obedience.Less
This chapter explores Félicité de Lamennais's influence on French Catholics as it follows Charles de Montalembert's passage to adulthood. It considers how Montalembert used the platform of L'Avenir, Lamennais's newspaper, to argue that Catholicism should embrace liberty. It also discusses the impact of Pope Gregory XVI's condemnation of Lamennais's teaching on Montalembert's life. It highlights the difficulties of Catholicism for many postrevolutionary men that were evident in Montalembert's efforts to combine the citizen's independent judgment with the Catholic's humble submission to authority. Finally, it analyzes Montalembert's notion of Catholic citizenship as well as his response to the dilemma of autonomy and obedience.
Thomas Kselman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300226133
- eISBN:
- 9780300235647
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300226133.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter examines the religious choices of Félicité Lamennais, a key figure in the political and religious debates of the French Restoration. After flirting with the doctrines of Rousseau as an ...
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This chapter examines the religious choices of Félicité Lamennais, a key figure in the political and religious debates of the French Restoration. After flirting with the doctrines of Rousseau as an adolescent, Lamennais converted to ultramontane Catholicism, convinced that papal authority was the only reliable basis for social order. State repression of Catholicism in Poland, Belgium, Ireland, and France in 1830 led Lamennais to alter his views and embrace a marriage of “God and Liberty” in which Catholics would support the separation of church and state, and defend political and civil liberties, in particular the freedom of the press. Twice condemned by Pope Gregory XVI, Lamennais abandoned Catholicism and embraced the right of freedom of conscience that he had formerly condemned.Less
This chapter examines the religious choices of Félicité Lamennais, a key figure in the political and religious debates of the French Restoration. After flirting with the doctrines of Rousseau as an adolescent, Lamennais converted to ultramontane Catholicism, convinced that papal authority was the only reliable basis for social order. State repression of Catholicism in Poland, Belgium, Ireland, and France in 1830 led Lamennais to alter his views and embrace a marriage of “God and Liberty” in which Catholics would support the separation of church and state, and defend political and civil liberties, in particular the freedom of the press. Twice condemned by Pope Gregory XVI, Lamennais abandoned Catholicism and embraced the right of freedom of conscience that he had formerly condemned.
