Bd. 1: Vom Beginne des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zu den Concordatsverhandlungen
Buch, Deutsch, 487 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-487-12172-7
Verlag: Olms
After 43 years as Professor of Church History at the Seminary in Mainz, Heinrich Brück (1831-1903) spent the last three years of his life as Bishop of Mainz. In his principal work, its last part edited posthumously by his pupil J.B. Kissling, he offered an unusually fact-filled ‘History of the Catholic Church in Germany in the 19th century’, firmly focussed on the course of events. His description is coloured throughout by opinions which demonstrate his conservative Catholic viewpoint and his dislike not only of Protestantism but also of ‘Rationalism’ and ‘Liberalism’. This makes his work the most significant example of church history written with loyalty to Rome and in the apologetic tradition after the fading of the Kulturkampf. Today it is valuable not merely as a depiction with a particular bias but equally as a document of church history in itself.