Jeffrey D. Burson, PhD ’06, analyzes the history of the French Enlightenment and its relationship to the French Revolution by casting it as a diverse constellation of Theological Enlightenment discourses originating between about 1730 and 1762 from high-stakes cultural and political controversies involving the royal court, the government and the Catholic Church. Burson places the Abbé Jean-Martin de Prades at the center of the storm.
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