Part Two - THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH AND THE UNIVERSAL CLASS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2009
Summary
The Germans are still on the whole a very religious nation, and true religious formation and Enlightenment have attained a higher level among them than among any other nation. Just as it was among the Germans that the Reformation had its beginnings, so too among them in the eighteenth century there began a new revolution in religious knowledge and in the theological sciences, only this time without disturbance, violence, and war.
– Karl Friedrich Stäudlin, 1804Religion should serve as a support for the state. It should enlighten the citizen about his duties. It should foster in him love of his calling, domestic order, industry, exactitude and fidelity toward his trade. It must provide a doctrine of felicity for society and for each of its members.
– Johann Michael Bönicke, ca. 1780- Type
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- Enlightenment and the Creation of German Catholicism , pp. 123 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009