Priests of the French Revolution
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Priests of the French Revolution

Saints and Renegades in a New Political Era

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Priests of the French Revolution

Saints and Renegades in a New Political Era

About this book

The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.

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Information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780271063775
eBook ISBN
9780271060989
Topic
History
Subtopic
Early Modern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Prologue
  7. Notes to Prologue
  8. Part One: Engagement, 1789–1791
  9. Chapter 1: The Formation of a Revolutionary Priest" Sieyès and GrÊgoire
  10. Notes to Chapter 1
  11. Chapter 2: The Priests in Action: From Estates General to National Assembly
  12. Notes to Chapter 2
  13. Chapter 3: Claude Fauchet at the Bastille
  14. Notes to Chapter 3
  15. Chapter 4: The Church of Adrien Lamourette and His Allies
  16. Notes to Chapter 4
  17. Part Two: Survival, 1791–1795
  18. Chapter 5: The Failed Relationship of Revolutionary Church and State
  19. Notes to Chapter 5
  20. Chapter 6: The Tragic Convention Years
  21. Notes to Chapter 6
  22. Chapter 7: Terrorists and Abdicators: Ultimate Renegades
  23. Notes to Chapter 7
  24. Part Three: Revival, 1795–1802
  25. Chapter 8: The New Constitutional French Church
  26. Notes to Chapter 8
  27. Chapter 9: Stabilizing the Constitutional Church: Claude Le Coz and the Council of 1797
  28. Notes to Chapter 9
  29. Chapter 10: Constitutional Irresolution in the See of Paris: Jean-Baptiste Royer and the Council of 1801
  30. Notes to Chapter 10
  31. Chapter 11: Constitutional Clergy in the Church of Napoleon’s Concordat
  32. Notes to Chapter 11
  33. Chapter 12: The Afterlife of the Constitutiional Church: Hopes and Reality
  34. Notes to Chapter 12
  35. Appendix: Administration of the Constitutional Church and Oath Adherence by Department
  36. Notes
  37. Bibliography
  38. Index
  39. COVER Back