Religionizing, Romanizing Romantics: The Catholico-Christian Camouflage of the Early German Romantics: Wackenroder, Tieck, Novalis, Friedrich & August (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783631482032)

The study investigates the causes of the renewed yearning for spiritual values and highlights the growing sympathies for Catholicism even by Protestants after Rationalism and the French Revolution had dealt a seemingly mortal wound to the papacy. Alone amidst the ruins of a world which had passed away, the unchangeable Church appeared the sole bulwark against the revolutionary egalitarianism. Above all, the progress of the Catholic revival of the 19th century was made possible by the Romantic school founded in 1798 by a few extremely gifted Protestant idealists. Impressed by the aesthetic aspect of the Roman rite but without interest in the doctrines of salvation these soi-disant prophets and maturing gods were more hypocritical but no more virtuous and no closer to believing in the Catholic dogmas than were the worshippers of the Goddess of Reason, whom they fought.

Author: Siegmar Hellerich
ISBN-10: 3631482035
ISBN-13: 9783631482032
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1995
Pages: 313
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.90d