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.
Richard D. E Burton and Roger Nichols
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190277949
- eISBN:
- 9780190277963
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190277949.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Burton places Visions de l’Amen in the context of Catholic writers, not only of Ernest Hello himself, but also of men such as Ernest Renan, Henri Lacordaire, Paul Claudel, Charles Péguy, and, ...
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Burton places Visions de l’Amen in the context of Catholic writers, not only of Ernest Hello himself, but also of men such as Ernest Renan, Henri Lacordaire, Paul Claudel, Charles Péguy, and, possibly, Teilhard de Chardin. In the matter of the ‘abyss’, a crucial Hellovian concept, the distinction is clearly made between the nether abyss and the upper abyss: to quote Hello, ‘it is necessary that the nether abyss reveal death in its depths, in order that the upper abyss reveal life in its heights.’ In discussing this concept, Burton touches on a question already considered earlier in the book, namely Messiaen’s self-definition as a ‘musicien de joie’ and the problems he faced in interpreting pain and suffering. Burton, of course, wrote this chapter before the publication of Stephen Schloesser’s Visions of Amen in 2014, and the two texts can be compared with profit.Less
Burton places Visions de l’Amen in the context of Catholic writers, not only of Ernest Hello himself, but also of men such as Ernest Renan, Henri Lacordaire, Paul Claudel, Charles Péguy, and, possibly, Teilhard de Chardin. In the matter of the ‘abyss’, a crucial Hellovian concept, the distinction is clearly made between the nether abyss and the upper abyss: to quote Hello, ‘it is necessary that the nether abyss reveal death in its depths, in order that the upper abyss reveal life in its heights.’ In discussing this concept, Burton touches on a question already considered earlier in the book, namely Messiaen’s self-definition as a ‘musicien de joie’ and the problems he faced in interpreting pain and suffering. Burton, of course, wrote this chapter before the publication of Stephen Schloesser’s Visions of Amen in 2014, and the two texts can be compared with profit.
