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The Enlightenment in Relation to the Church*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

John Tate Lanning
John Tate Lanning*
Affiliation:
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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I SHOULD like to ask you gentlemen to allow me, in the very beginning, to set limits to my task. The most imposing of these limitations are my own. It would be unbecoming of me to make a tacit profession of authority on the Enlightenment in English America by discoursing on the subject. I have, moreover, never made a frontal assault on the broad field of theology in the Latin world, for I regard the subject as universal, well-known to historical theologists, and when known for Europe generally predictable for America. There is also a relation between the Enlightenment in Spain and the Enlightenment in America, but what happens in America cannot be absolutely foretold by what happens in Spain. I shall therefore treat Spain, when I treat it at all, as only a back-drop for the American scene.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , January 1958 , pp. 489 - 496
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1958

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Footnotes

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John Tate Lanning is Professor of History at Duke University. He was first Latin American Exchange fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation in 1930, editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review from 1939 to 1945, won the Carnegie Award of the American Historical Association for 1955, the Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize of the Conference on Latin American History of the American Historical Association in 1956. He is a Corresponding Member of the Sociedad Cubana de Estudios Históricos e Internacionales, and of the Sociedad de geografía e historia de Guatemala. His chief publications include The Spanish Missions of Georgia (Chapel Hill, 1935); Academic Culture in the Spanish Colonies (New York & London, 1940); The University in the Kingdom of Guatemala (Ithaca, 1955); The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment in the University of San Carlos de Guatemala (Ithaca, 1956), and Las Reales Cédulas de la Real y Pontificia Universidad de México (México, 1947). Address: Department of History, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

References

1 “The Enlightenment in the University of Salamanca.” Manuscript Ph. D. thesis, Duke University, 1957.

* See pp. 383–398.