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The Life of Thuanus

Author: John Collinson
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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The Life of Thuanus

Author: John Collinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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A Letter to Dr. Mead Concerning a New Edition of Thuanus's History

Author: Samuel Buckley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Brief Sketch of the Life of Thuanus

Author: Josiah H. Walker
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Gibbon’s Christianity

Author: Hugh Liebert
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271092432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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There has never been much doubt about the faith of the “infidel historian” Edward Gibbon. But for all of Gibbon’s skepticism regarding Christianity’s central doctrines, the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire did not merely seek to oppose Christianity; he confronted it as a philosophical and historical puzzle. Gibbon’s Christianity tallies the results and conditions of that confrontation. Using rich correspondence, private journals, early works, and memoirs that were never completed, Hugh Liebert provides intimate access to Gibbon’s life in order to better understand his complex relationship with religion. Approaching the Decline and Fall from the context surrounding its conception, Liebert shows how Gibbon adapted explanations of the Roman republic’s rise to account for a new spiritual republic and, subsequently, the rise of modern Europe. Taken together, Liebert’s analysis of this context, including the nuance of Gibbon’s relationship to Christianity, and his readings of Gibbon’s better- and lesser-known texts suggest a historian more eager to comprehend Christianity’s worldly power than to sneer at or dismiss it. Eminently readable and wholly accessible to anyone interested in or familiar with the Decline and Fall, this groundbreaking reassessment of Gibbon’s most famous work will appeal especially to scholars of eighteenth-century studies.