Jean-Louis Clément

Le catholicisme comme religion politique en France

How political concepts which were built up by Counter-revolutionary school were been able to graft on French Catholicism since the Revolution of 1789? The historical investigation proves that positivist or socialist theorists were indebt to Joseph de Maistre and Louis de Bonald for their religious prophecies and their theory upon relations between temporal power and spiritual power. These ideas became French catholic ideas with the Saint-Simon socialist school and the Roman Catholic priest de La Mennais and the writers as Honore de Balzac, George Fonsegrive or Paul Bourget. Upon these influences, the French Catholic left-wing put the political principle of reality in the society and not in the human person.