Catholic Enlightenment - Lehner, Ulrich L. (William K. Warren Professor of Theology, Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, IN)

The most cherished values of modernity are unthinkable without the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Equal rights, the end of discrimination, the growth of democracy, and the idea of perpetual progress stem from thinkers who lived two hundred and fifty years ago, but whose ideas are as attractive as ever.