Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in their Effects on Civilization in Europe

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Author

Balmes, Jaime Luciano, 1810-1848

Title

Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe

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Language

English

LoC Class

BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements

Subject

Christian civilization

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eBook-No. 50436

Release Date

November 12, 2015

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PROTESTANTISM AND CATHOLICITY COMPARED IN THEIR EFFECTS ON THE CIVILIZATION OF EUROPE.
2. 2.AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
3. 3.PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
4. 4.NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
5. 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
6. 6.TABLE OF NOTES.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. NAME AND NATURE OF PROTESTANTISM .
8. 8.CHAPTER II. CAUSES OF PROTESTANTISM .
9. 9.CHAPTER III. EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH .
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. PROTESTANTISM AND THE MIND .
11. 11.CHAPTER V. INSTINCT OF FAITH IN THE SCIENCES .
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. DIFFERENCES IN THE RELIGIOUS WANTS OF NATIONS—MATHEMATICS—MORAL SCIENCES .
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. INDIFFERENCE AND FANATICISM .
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. FANATICISM—ITS DEFINITION.—FANATICISM IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH .
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. INFIDELITY AND INDIFFERENCE IN EUROPE, THE FRUITS OF PROTESTANTISM .
16. 16.CHAPTER X. CAUSES OF THE CONTINUANCE OF PROTESTANTISM .
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. THE POSITIVE DOCTRINES OF PROTESTANTISM REPUGNANT TO THE INSTINCT OF CIVILIZATION .
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. THE EFFECTS WHICH THE INTRODUCTION OF PROTESTANTISM INTO SPAIN WOULD HAVE PRODUCED .
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. CATHOLICITY AND PROTESTANTISM IN RELATION TO SOCIAL PROGRESS. PRELIMINARY COUP D'ŒIL .
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. DID THERE EXIST AT THE EPOCH WHEN CHRISTIANITY APPEARED ANY OTHER PRINCIPLE OF REGENERATION?
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. DIFFICULTIES WHICH CHRISTIANITY HAD TO OVERCOME IN THE WORK OF SOCIAL REGENERATION.—OF SLAVERY.—COULD IT BE DESTROYED WITH MORE PROMPTNESS THAN IT WAS BY CHRISTIANITY?
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. IDEAS AND MANNERS OF ANTIQUITY WITH RESPECT TO SLAVERY.—THE CHURCH BEGINS BY IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF SLAVES .
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. MEANS EMPLOYED BY THE CHURCH TO ENFRANCHISE SLAVES .
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT .
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. DOCTRINES OF S. AUGUSTINE AND S. THOMAS AQUINAS ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY.—RÉSUMÉ OF THE SUBJECT .
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO ORDERS OF CIVILIZATION .
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. OF THE INDIVIDUAL—OF THE FEELING OF INDIVIDUAL INDEPENDENCE ACCORDING TO M. GUIZOT .
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. HOW THE INDIVIDUAL WAS ABSORBED BY ANCIENT SOCIETY .
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. THE PROGRESS OF INDIVIDUALITY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CATHOLICITY .
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE FAMILY.—MONOGAMY.—INDISSOLUBILITY OF THE CONJUGAL TIE .
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. OF THE PASSION OF LOVE .
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. VIRGINITY IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECT .
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII. OF CHIVALRY AND BARBARIAN MANNERS, IN THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE CONDITION OF WOMEN .
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII. OF THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE IN GENERAL .
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX. OF THE PRINCIPLE OF PUBLIC CONSCIENCE ACCORDING TO MONTESQUIEU—HONOR—VIRTUE .
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX. ON THE DIFFERENT INFLUENCE OF PROTESTANTISM AND CATHOLICITY ON THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE .
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI. ON GENTLENESS OF MANNERS IN GENERAL .
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII. THE IMPROVEMENT OF MANNERS BY THE ACTION OF THE CHURCH .
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII. ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC BENEFICENCE IN EUROPE .
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV. ON TOLERATION IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS .
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXV. ON THE RIGHT OF COERCION IN GENERAL .
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVI. ON THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN .
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVII. SECOND EPOCH OF THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN .
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVIII. RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THEMSELVES .
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXIX. OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN HISTORY.—THE FIRST SOLITARIES .
46. 46.CHAPTER XL. ON RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THE EAST .
47. 47.CHAPTER XLI. OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WEST .
48. 48.CHAPTER XLII. OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE MIDDLE AGES.—THE MILITARY ORDERS .
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIII. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT—EUROPE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY .
50. 50.CHAPTER XLIV. THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS FOR THE REDEMPTION OF CAPTIVES .
51. 51.CHAPTER XLV. THE UNIVERSAL PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION IMPEDED BY PROTESTANTISM .
52. 52.CHAPTER XLVI. THE JESUITS .
53. 53.CHAPTER XLVII. THE FUTURE OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.—THEIR PRESENT NECESSITY .
54. 54.CHAPTER XLVIII. RELIGION AND LIBERTY .
55. 55.CHAPTER XLIX. THE ORIGIN OF SOCIETY, ACCORDING TO CATHOLIC DIVINES .
56. 56.CHAPTER L. ON THE RIGHT DIVINE, ACCORDING TO THE CATHOLIC DOCTORS .
57. 57.CHAPTER LI. TRANSMISSION OF POWER, ACCORDING TO THE CATHOLIC DOCTORS .
58. 58.CHAPTER LII. FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNDER THE SPANISH MONARCHY .
59. 59.CHAPTER LIII. ON THE FACULTIES OF THE CIVIL POWER .
60. 60.CHAPTER LIV. ON RESISTANCE TO THE CIVIL POWER .
61. 61.CHAPTER LV. ON RESISTANCE TO DE FACTO GOVERNMENTS .
62. 62.CHAPTER LVI. HOW THE CIVIL POWER MAY BE LAWFULLY RESISTED .
63. 63.CHAPTER LVII. POLITICAL SOCIETY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY .
64. 64.CHAPTER LVIII. MONARCHY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY .
65. 65.CHAPTER LIX. THE ARISTOCRACY OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY .
66. 66.CHAPTER LX. ON DEMOCRACY .
67. 67.CHAPTER LXI. ON THE VALUE OF THE DIFFERENT POLITICAL FORMS—CHARACTER OF MONARCHY IN EUROPE .
68. 68.CHAPTER LXII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MONARCHY IN EUROPE .
69. 69.CHAPTER LXIII. TWO KINDS OF DEMOCRACY .
70. 70.CHAPTER LXIV. STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE THREE SOCIAL ELEMENTS .
71. 71.CHAPTER LXV. POLITICAL DOCTRINES BEFORE THE APPEARANCE OF PROTESTANTISM .
72. 72.CHAPTER LXVI. POLITICAL DOCTRINES IN SPAIN .
73. 73.CHAPTER LXVII. POLITICAL LIBERTY AND RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE .
74. 74.CHAPTER LXVIII. UNITY IN FAITH NOT ADVERSE TO POLITICAL LIBERTY .
75. 75.CHAPTER LXIX. OF INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CATHOLICITY .
76. 76.CHAPTER LXX. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT .
77. 77.CHAPTER LXXI. RELIGION AND THE HUMAN MIND IN EUROPE .
78. 78.CHAPTER LXXII. ON THE PROGRESS OF THE HUMAN MIND FROM THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME .
79. 79.CHAPTER LXXIII. SUMMARY.—DECLARATION OF THE AUTHOR .
80. 80.NOTES.
81. 81.APPENDIX.
82. 82.INDEX.
83. 83.FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's Notes

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