Ulrich L. Lehner is the William K. Warren Foundation Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has published more than twenty volumes on early modern history and the history of religion including Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism (Routledge, 2018) and his writings have been translated into seven languages.

• 1. Introduction: Innovation and Creativity in Early Modern Catholicism 2. The Rhetoric of Innovation and Constancy in Early Modern Catholicism 3. Catholic Theology and Doctrinal Novelty in the Quarrel over Grace: Theological schools, innovations, and pluralism during the Molinism Controversy 4. Faithfulness and Novelty in Early Modern Thomism: The Dionysian Dimension of Physical Predetermination 5. The Innovative Character of the Suárezian Project in its Proper Historical Context 6. New Models of Church Government: Innovation in Catholic Ecclesiology, ca. 1600–1800 7. At the Fringes of the Church: The Ecclesial Status of Heretics and their Baptized Children in Early Modern Ecclesiology 8. The Invention of Probabilism 9. Natural Law and Cultural Difference: innovations in Spanish scholasticism 10. Duns Scotus and the Making of Modern Catholic Theology 11. The Invention of Early Modern Mariology

‘This book is an important intervention in early modern studies. Dismantling the caricature of the period’s Catholic theology as staid and oppressive, this volume highlights the innovation and creativity that was taking place, which saw the Church spread globally and help set theological courses that would rise to prevalence in the modern period.’James E. Kelly, Durham University, UK"This multi-faceted volume’s numerous case studies provide a compelling and fascinating effort at rediscovering these early modern hybrids—traditional innovations."Stephen Schloesser S.J., Department of History, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Reviewed in Journal of Jesuit Studies issue 10 (Brill, 2023), 371-3