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"The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu was an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French, the Histoire promoted progress, the pursuit of happiness, the fundamental goodness of humanity, and the capacity of nature to shape moral human beings. Berruyer aimed to update the Bible for a new age, but his work unleashed a furor that ended with the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of Berruyer's Histoire, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within the church and between the church and the French state. Berruyer's Bible flips the traditional narrative of the Enlightenment on its head by showing that the secularization of French society and the political decline of the Cathoblic Church were not due solely to the external assaults of anti-clerical philosophes but also to the internal discord caused by Catholic theologians themselves. Built upon extensive research in archives across Western Europe and the United States, Berruyer's Bible paints a vivid picture of the tumultuous intellectual world of the Catholic Church and the power of radical ideas that shaped the church throughout the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and beyond."--

Berruyer, Isaac-Joseph

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Hardouin, Jean --- Berruyer, Isaac-Joseph

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Il gesuita francese Isaac-Joseph Berruyer ci ha lasciato un’imponente produzione di parafrasi commentate della Sacra Scrittura che, se hanno ottenuto all’epoca un grande successo, sono state anche attaccate e condannate da Roma. L’accusa rivolta al suo modo di esporre può riassumersi in un aggettivo: burlesque. Nell'ottica dei censori è il mescolarsi di generi a creare disagio. Berruyer parla della Bibbia col registro lieve del romanzo: ciò non è consono allo stile solenne, grave, della Scrittura. Un’accusa che emerge, tra quelle che gli vengono mosse, si potrebbe chiamare rigiudaicizzazione della Scrittura. Berruyer rilegge la vita di Gesù e della Chiesa primitiva alla luce di quello che oggi chiameremmo giudeo-cristianesimo: Gesù non avrebbe inteso rivolgersi ai pagani e l’attività degli apostoli si sarebbe concentrata in Terra Santa. Ricostruendo il dibattito suscitato dalle opere di questo esegeta «paradossale», senza pretendere di esaurirne la figura e la ricezione, il libro affronta la storia della sua censura e le modalità di costruzione della stessa.

Censorship --- Religious aspects --- History --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 098.1 --- 098.1 Verboden boeken --- Verboden boeken --- Book censorship --- Books --- Literature --- Literature and morals --- Anticensorship activists --- Challenged books --- Expurgated books --- Intellectual freedom --- Prohibited books --- Catholic Church --- Law and legislation --- Berruyer, Isaac-Joseph, --- Berruyer, Isacco-Gioseffo, --- Berruyer, Joseph Isaac, --- Berruyer, --- Berruyer, Issac Joseph, --- Berruier, Issac-Joseph, --- Jesuits --- Compagnie de Jésus --- Compañia de Jesus --- Gesellschaft Jesu --- Jesuitas --- Jesuiten --- Jesuiti --- Jezuïten --- Jésuites --- Paters Jezuïten --- Societeit van Jezus --- Society of Jesus --- イエズス会 --- カトリック イエズス会 --- Index librorum prohibitorum. --- Index of forbidden books --- List of prohibited books --- Roman index --- Tridentine index --- Index expurgatorius --- Censorship - France - Religious aspects - History - 18th century --- Berruyer, Isaac-Joseph