Catholic Enlightenment
Autor
Ulrich L. Lehner (William K. Warren Professor Of Theology, William K. Warren Professor Of Theology,
The most cherished values of modernity are unthinkable without the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Equal rights, the end of discrimination, the growth of democracy, and the idea of perpetual progress stem from thinkers who lived two hundred and fifty years ago, but whose ideas are as attractive as ever.