Gibbon’s Christianity : : Religion, Reason, and the Fall of Rome / / Hugh Liebert.

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• VerfasserIn: Liebert, Hugh,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
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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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Religious Controversies and Conversions in the Time of Gibbon
• Chapter 2 Gibbon’s Autobiographies
• Chapter 3 Essai
• Chapter 4 The Rise of Christianity
• Chapter 5 General Observations
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index