《天主教启蒙运动：全球文选》为读者提供了15位主要的天主教启蒙运动作家的作品中易于阅读的翻译选集。这些早期现代作家包括女性、牧师、非专业知识分子和主教。其中12个数字首次被译成英语。本书的目的是为学生、学者和感兴趣的非专家提供一个单一的出发点，以深入研究天主教启蒙运动的主要来源。这本选集展示了天主教启蒙运动在地理和知识上的多样性，同时也展示了知识取向上的重要共性。
这本书的一个优点是所考虑的数字的地理分布。其中包括来自英国、美国、墨西哥、西班牙、葡萄牙、巴西、法国、葡萄牙以及意大利语和德语国家的天主教思想家。这本书的另一个优点是所处理的主题的广度——它以田园书信、神秘书、教学论文、政治宣言和神学作品为特色。这些文本阐明了天主教启蒙运动对妇女教育史、礼拜仪式和宗教信仰以及教会和国家之间关系等主题的看法。
联合编辑Ulrich Lehner和Shaun Blanchard为这个激动人心的项目召集了一个来自欧洲和美洲的国际学者团队。莱纳是对天主教启蒙运动重新产生兴趣的核心学者之一。他共同编辑了这本书，为导言撰稿，并介绍和翻译了两位重要的德语人物。肖恩·布兰查德（Shaun Blanchard）最近出版了一本关于激进天主教启蒙运动人物的专著，他也参与了编辑工作，从两位讲英语的人物中挑选了一些人物，并完成了自1789年以来罗多维科·穆拉托里（Lodovic Muratori）关于基督徒受规管奉献的里程碑式作品的第一篇英文翻译。
The Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology
The Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology presents readers with accessible, translated selections from the writings of fifteen major Catholic Enlightenment authors. These early modern authors include women, priests, lay intellectuals, and bishops. Twelve of these figures are being brought into English for the first time. The purpose of the volume is to provide students, scholars, and interested non-specialists with a single point of departure to delve into the primary sources of the Catholic Enlightenment. This anthology shows the geographical and intellectual diversity of the Catholic Enlightenment, while also demonstrating significant threads of commonality in intellectual orientation.
One strength of this volume is the geographical spread of the figures considered. Included are Catholic thinkers from England, the United States, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, France, Portugal, and the Italian and German-speaking lands. Another strength of this volume is the breadth of subject matter treated – it features pastoral letters, mystical tracts, pedagogical treatises, political manifestos, and theological works. These texts elucidate Catholic Enlightenment views on topics such as the history of women’s education, liturgy and devotions, and the relationship between church and state.
The co-editors, Ulrich Lehner and Shaun Blanchard, have assembled a team of international scholars from Europe and the Americas for this exciting project. Lehner is one of the central scholars behind the renewed interest in the Catholic Enlightenment. He co-edits the volume, contributes to the introduction, and introduces and translates two significant German-speaking figures. Shaun Blanchard, who has recently published a monograph on radical Catholic Enlightenment figures, also co-edits, contributes selections from two English-speaking figures and has completed the first English translation of a section of Lodovico Muratori’s landmark On the Regulated Devotion of a Christian since 1789.
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