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Berruyer's Bible
2021
Overview
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple
de Dieu was an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the
Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A
paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French, the
Histoire promoted progress, the pursuit of happiness, the
fundamental goodness of humanity, and the capacity of nature to
shape moral human beings. Berruyer aimed to update the Bible for a
new age, but his work unleashed a furor that ended with the
expulsion of the Jesuits from France. Berruyer's Bible
offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic
Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of Berruyer's
Histoire , Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to
assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within the church
and between the church and the French state. Berruyer's
Bible flips the traditional narrative of the Enlightenment on
its head by showing that the secularization of French society and
the political decline of the Catholic Church were due not solely to
the external assaults of anti-clerical philosophes but
also to the internal discord caused by Catholic theologians
themselves. Built upon extensive research in archives across
Western Europe and the United States, Berruyer's Bible
paints a vivid picture of the tumultuous intellectual world of the
Catholic Church and the power of radical ideas that shaped the
church throughout the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and
beyond.
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject
ISBN
0228006309, 9780228006305, 0228006295, 9780228006299
