Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Perspectives on enlightenment, religion, and the Abbe de Prades : toward a new historiography of theological enlightenment
  • The creation of the Jesuit synthesis : Locke, Malebranche, and the flowering of theological enlightenment
  • The radicalizing enlightenment and the maturation of theological enlightenment to 1750
  • Bringing up the theological enlightenment : life, leisure, philosophy, and culture at the University of Paris and the seminaries, ca. 1730-1755
  • Theological enlightenment at the Sorbonne, 1729-1752
  • The center falters : turmoil and the burgeoning fracture of theological and radical enlightenments
  • Prades and the crucible of religious polarization in eighteenth-century France
  • The abortive theological enlightenment synthesis of Prades I
  • The abortive theological enlightenment synthesis of Prades II : from natural religion to the necessity and historicity of Catholicism
  • The scandal at the Sorbonne and the condemnation
  • The nadir of theological enlightenment : religious polarization of the eighteenth-century public sphere in the aftermath of the Prades affair
  • Prades and the long denouement in Prussia, 1752-1782
  • Appendix : authenticity of the Prades thesis and Apologie.