Renouveau catholique

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The Renouveau catholique ( Catholic Renewal ) was a philosophical, socially critical and mainly literary Catholic movement that began in France and was able to expand to other European countries.

history

The Renouveau catholique emerged as a conservative Catholic movement in the first third of the 19th century and was led by François-René de Chateaubriand . As a final extension of the political reaction against the Enlightenment , it turned against the separation of church and state ( secularism ) in France . The movement was driven by a protest that the conventional language was insufficient, so that many writers joined.

One of the goals of the Renouveau catholique, as a result of its active group of people, was a renewal of literature and society by turning to the values ​​of an original Catholicism . Preferred genera were priests novel , Lives of the Saints , Miracle book , mystery plays , dramatic oratorios . In addition to Catholicism, the Renouveau was shaped by the abandonment of both positivism and determinism while at the same time taking a very differentiated view of the standards set by Catholic dogma. In Paris there were connections to Russian emigrants and from there to literary resistance in Germany.

The unformulated program allowed a wide range of influence in the intellectual life of France. Positions of the Renouveau catholique can be found in Joris-Karl Huysmans ' aesthetic Catholicism as well as in the traditionalism and nationalism of Action française and in the socialism of Charles Péguy , but also in Paul Claudel's universal perspective .

There was no resistance to laicism in the German-speaking countries because the state supported the churches. In Germany and Austria, those authors who had turned to the Renouveau catholique affirmed their loyalty to the state and supported church education.

Group of people

Denmark
France
Germany
Great Britain
Ireland
Netherlands
Norway
Austria
Poland
Russia
Slovenia
Czech Republic

See also

literature

  • Karl Heinz Bloching: The authors of the literary "renouveau catholique" France. Publishing house of the Borromäusverein, Bonn 1966.
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann, Roman Luckscheiter (ed.): Modern and anti-modern. The Renouveau catholique and German literature. Contributions from the Heidelberg Colloquium from September 12 to 16, 2006 (= Catholica. Volume 1). Rombach, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7930-9546-0 .
  • Elke Lindhorst: The dialectic of intellectual history and theology in modern French literature. Poetry in the tradition of the Renouveau Catholique from 1890–1990. Dissertation. Cologne 1993. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995.
  • Veit Neumann: The theology of the Renouveau catholique. Reflection on the faith of French writers in modern times using the example of Georges Bernanos and François Mauriac (= Regensburg Studies on Theology. Volume 65). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-55387-9 (Zugl .: Munich, Univ., Diss., 2005).
  • Alexander Pschera: Léon Bloy. Pilgrim of the Absolute. Edition Antaios, Schnellroda 2006, ISBN 3-935063-08-3 .
  • Jules Sageret: Les Grands Convertis. M. Paul Bourget, M.J.K. Huysmans, M. Brunetière, M. Coppée. Société du Mercure de France, Paris 1906.
  • Hermann Weinert: Poetry from Faith. Introduction to the spiritual world of the Renouveau catholique in modern French literature. 2nd Edition. Hamburg 1948.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannelore Schlaffer : Time of the Raven, Time of the Dove. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 106, May 10, 2010, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Regula M. Zwahlen: The revolutionary image of God. Anthropologies of human dignity in Nikolaj A. Berdjaev and Sergej N. Bulgakov (= Syneidos. Volume 5). Lit, Vienna / Berlin / Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-80067-1 , p. 87 (Zugl .: Friborg, Univ., Diss., 2009).
  3. ↑ Hannelore Schlaffer: Time of the Raven, Time of the Dove. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 106, May 10, 2010, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Joachim Scholtyseck, Christoph Studt (ed.): Universities and students in the Third Reich. Lit, Berlin a. a. 2008, p. 92.
  5. ↑ Hannelore Schlaffer: Time of the Raven, Time of the Dove. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 106, May 10, 2010, p. 14.