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The Eschatology of the Eos-Circle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Paul Gottfried
Paul Gottfried
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Mr. Gottfried is assistant professor of history inCase Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Madame de Staël, in her monumental study of German culture, L'Allemagne, wrote of the Catholic church at the dawn of the nineteenth century: “Today, standing disarmed, it has the majesty of an aged lion which formerly made the universe tremble.”1 The French empire, continuing the policy of the revolution, confiscated ecclesiastical property wherever it expanded. By 1804 Napoleon distributed the church's land in Germany—which had been the most extensive in her possession of any country in Christendom—among his client rulers on the right bank of the Rhine.2 All over Europe princes were dissolving monastic communities in order to make their revenues available to the state. Perhaps the church suffered her crowning indignity in 1809, when Napoleon responded to a dispute with the pope by making him his prisoner.

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Church History , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , June 1970, pp. 187 - 197
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1970

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