Church in France 1789-1907 by C S Phillips

Today’s free book is a two-volume set that covers the history of the church in France from 1789-1907 by Cambridge Scholar C S Phillips.

These public domain volumes were digitised from the set held in Spurgeon’s College library.

Charles Stanley Phillips [1883-1949], The Church in France 1789-1848: A Study in Revival. London: A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1929. Hbk. pp.315. [Click here to visit the download page for this volume]

Contents

• Preface

1. The Church Before the Revolution
2. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 1789-91
3. Persecution and Revival, 1791-1801
4. Chateaubriand and ‘Le Génie Du Christianisme’
5. The Concordatof 1801
6. The Breach with the Papacy, 1802-09
7. The Pope at Savona and the Cardinals at Paris, 1809-11
8. The National Council and the Concordat of Fountainebleau, 1811-14
9. The Restoration, 1814-17
10. The Concordat of 1817, 1817-20
11. The Triumph of Reaction, 1820-30
12. The Prophets of the Counter-Revolution—De Maistre: Dr Boanld: Lamennais
13. The Story of the ‘Avenir.’ 1830-34
14. The Religious Revival under the July Monarchy: Lacordaire, 1834-48
15. The Fight for Catholic Education: Montalembert, 1833-48; Epilogue

• Bibliography
• Index

Charles Stanley Phillips [1883-1949], The Church in France 1848-1907. London: SPCK, 1936. Hbk. pp.341. [Click here to visit the download page for this volume]

Contents

• The Rise of Ultramontanism in France

1. The Revolution of 1848 and the Rise of Louis Napoleon
2. Church and State in the First Years of the Second Empire, 1851-1856
3. Ultramontanes and Liberal Catholics, 1851-1857
4. Napoleon III. and the Liberation of Italy, 1855-1857
5. The Imperial Government, the Catholics and the Pope,1859-18643
6. The Congress of Malines, the Syllabus and the Roman Question, 1863-1870
7. The Vatican Council, 1869-1870
8. The National Assembly and the Church, 1870-1876
9. The Campaign against Clericalism, 1876-1884
10. The Coming of “Ralliement,” 1884-1894
11. The “New Spirit” and the Dreyfus Affair, 1884-1899
12. Yje Associations Law and the End of the Concordat, 1899-1905
13. The Internal Life of the French Church under Leo XIII
14. The Internal Life of the French Church under Leo XIII (continued)

• Epilogue
• Index

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