LIBERALISM

Liberalism is, in general, the belief that it is the aim of politics to preserve individual rights and to maximize freedom of choice. *
 

  Lay Council, Med. illum. ms.

The Siege of Troy, Med. illum. ms.


* McLean, et.al., eds., The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (3rd ed., Oxford Univ.Pr. 2010).


LIBERALISM in politics encouraged reaction and revolution against monarchy, hereditary privilege, and state religion in order to replace them with representative democracy, rule of law, and equality under the law,  and religious freedom. The latter presupposes religious toleration: however, Catholicism was widely perceived as supportive of (or eager to restore) the ancien régime.  Thus anti-Catholicism (sometimes anti-Christianity) often co-existed with with supposed religious toleration.


Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another, and this is the teaching which is gaining substance and force daily. It is inconsistent with any recognition of any religion, as true. It teaches that all are to be tolerated, for all are matters of opinion. Revealed religion is not a truth, but a sentiment and a taste; not an objective fact, not miraculous; and it is the right of each individual to make it say just what strikes his fancy. Devotion is not necessarily founded on faith…

Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Biglietto Speech, delivered on being raised to the College of Cardinals


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                                                                                                1737 ―――     Thomas PAINE     ―――    1809   

                                  

 

                  PUEBLO REVOLT                                                             1743   ―――     Thomas JEFFERSON     ―――     1826         '

 

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                                                                                                                                                       '84-MISSIONS-'03   1808  ――  NAPOLEON III  ――――  1873

 

                                  

                                                               REGALISM                     JOSEPHISM 1773-JESUIT SUPPRESSION-1814

  

 '26 de RANCE O.C.S.O. -1700║                                                 1749     ―      Johann Wolfgang Von GOETHE          1832  


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1642        ―      Isaac NEWTON             1727     ║                 ║    1749      ―      Pierre-Simon LAPLACE      ―      1827    

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           JANSENISM                 UNIGENITUS                                               FEBRONIANISM   


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  1651  ―  St. John de La SALLE   ―  1719  ║                                                                    ║  1782   ―    Félicité Robert de LAMENNAIS       1854   

 

 

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