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Runner Up for the 2022 Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award A First Things Summer Reading List Selection, 2021 How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their church's own traditionsrather than Enlightenment liberalismto secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life. Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the pope's authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church-state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early Amer

Author

Michael D. Breidenbach

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: Harvard University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674247239

Subjects

Christian, Political Science, History