1. Introduction Part I. Perfect Societies: Rethinking the Church and the State: 2. The liberty of the German church: Febronianism and the German Gallicans 3. The German church and the absolute state 4. Church and empire in the eighteenth century 5. Collegialism: the rise of the state, and the redefinition of the church Part II. The Universal Church and the University Class: 6. Catholic enlightenment and the search for a bourgeois Catholicism 7. A program for reform 8. Pastors of enlightenment: reforming the secular clergy 9. Gallican longings: nation and religion in the German enlightenment 10. Conclusion.
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