Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy
Title | Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Ashley Caldwell |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Modernism (Christian theology) |
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This thesis examines the cultural and political development of Liberal Catholicism in modern Italy. The events of the Risorgimento had deprived the Catholic Church of her temporal power in 1860 after the Second War of Italian Unification. Pius IX then promulgated Non expedit. The encyclical refused to recognize the Kingdom of Italy and forbade Italian Catholics from participating in local or national elections in the new liberal regime. In fin de siecle Italy, the Church consistently pursued anti-nationalist, reactionary policies, but there were many Catholic laymen who believed that the survival of the Catholic Church in the modern world depended on her capacity to adapt to modern civilization. An analysis of the life and works of Antonio Fogazzaro illustrates one of the many possibilities for political Catholicism in fin de siecle Italy. Fogazzaro came of age during this revolutionary period in the Catholic Church, and through his most important novels, Daniele Cortis, Il piccolo mondo antico, and Il Santo, he offered Italian Catholics a way of thinking about political Catholicism in an ostensibly apolitical Church. After the publication of Il Santo in 1905, Fogazzaro received condemnation from the Congregation of the Index. In his ninety-three-page encyclical Pascendi di dominici gregis of 8 September 1907, Pius X then denounced him in the modernist controversy. Ultimately, Fogazzaro accepted the judgments of the Holy Tribunal and remained attached the Catholic tradition he revered. His works represent a departure from religious traditionalism and literalism as well as a move toward the development of liberal Catholicism in modern Italy.
Catholicism in Modern Italy
Title | Catholicism in Modern Italy PDF eBook |
Author | John Francis Pollard |
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Pages | 247 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0415238358 |
John Pollard's book surveys the relationship between Catholicism and the process of change in Italy from Unification to the present day. Central to the book is the complex set of relationships between traditional religion and the forces of change. In a broad sweep, Catholicism in Modern Italylooks at the cultural, social, political and economic aspects of the Catholic church and its relationship to the different experiences across Italy over this dramatic period of change and 'modernisation'.
Modern and Contemporary European History (1815-1922)
Title | Modern and Contemporary European History (1815-1922) PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Salwyn Schapiro |
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Pages | 968 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Europe |
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MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ERUOPEAN HISTORY (1815-1923)
Title | MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ERUOPEAN HISTORY (1815-1923) PDF eBook |
Author | J. SALWYN SCHAPIRO |
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Pages | 980 |
Release | 1923 |
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Modern and Contemporary European History (1815-1928)
Title | Modern and Contemporary European History (1815-1928) PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Salwyn Schapiro |
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Pages | 918 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Europe |
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Religious Liberalism in Modern Italy
Title | Religious Liberalism in Modern Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ceasar Casella |
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Pages | 278 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Church and state |
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Modern and Contemporary European History
Title | Modern and Contemporary European History PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Salwyn Schapiro |
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Pages | 862 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Europe |
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