The title of the 2016–2017 Roman Forum New York Church History Discussion Series was Even Now the Devastation Is Begun…and Half the Business of Destruction Done (1748–1799). Both audio and videotapes of all lectures will be posted on the Roman Forum Soundcloud.
Syllabus
September 18: The Last Pontificates & Princes of the Ancien Régime
October 2: Learned Bishops, Continued Tridentine Vitality, and the Second Spring of the Internal Missions
October 16: Battening the Hatches: Montesquieu & the Encyclopedia
October 23: Battening the Hatches: No Enemies On the “Left”?
November 6: The Lisbon Earthquake & the Voltaire-Rousseau-Atheist-Christian Tsunami
November 20: Jesuits, Jansenists, and the Billets de Confession
December 4: Reform Catholicism & the “Regulated Devotion”
December 18: Religions of the Heart — Both Sacred & Profane
2017
January 15: Prussia, Britain, and the Panic of the Potentates
January 29: The Via Crucis of the Russian Church (But Her Budding Mystical Revival)
February 12: Regalism in Portugal & Spain & the Anti-Jesuit Assault
February 26: The Missions Between Regalism & the Enlightenment
March 5: Intermezzo: The Strange But Temporary Death of the Society of Jesus
March 19: Febronianism, Josephism, and the Troubled Domestication of the Tridentine Germanic World
April 2: Whither the Eldest Daughter of the ChurchApril 9A “Patriotic” French Church & Her Multiple Discontents
April 23: The Center Cannot HoldMay 7Terror and Catholic GenocideMay 21Can the “Infamous Thing” Be Really Dead?
