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Gibbon's Christianity - Religion, Reason, and the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
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Gibbon's Christianity - Religion, Reason, and the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
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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.
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