The Lawyer of the Church: Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma

by Pablo Mijangos y Gonzalez

Mexico's Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture.
The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clergy's response to the Reforma through a study of the life and works of Bishop Clemente de Jes s Mungu a (1810-68), one of the most influential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803254865
• ISBN13: 9780803254862
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"