HIST 3320: Church Confronts Modernity

Course Department
Credits 3.0
Course ID
009161
Course Component
Lecture

The course will survey the range of responses among Catholic laity and Church hierarchy to the crises arising from modernization in general and from the French revolution, in particular: questions of church and state, religious freedom, educational freedom, the “social question” and the rise of revolutionary atheistic socialism. Students gain an understanding of how the pillars of Catholic Social teaching (human person, common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity) developed.

Requisites

HIST Upper-Div Requisites: Second-semester sophomore standing (45+ credit hours).

Semester Offered
Course Component
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