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Barbarism and Religion: Volume 5, Religion: The First Triumph (Hardcover, New)
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Barbarism and Religion: Volume 5, Religion: The First Triumph (Hardcover, New)
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This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism
and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's
treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy
in unprecedented depth, Pocock challenges the assumption that
Gibbon wrote with the intention of destroying belief in the
Christian revelation, and questions our understanding of the
character of 'enlightenment'. Reconsidering the genesis, inception
and reception of these crucial chapters of Decline and Fall, Pocock
explores the response of Gibbon's critics, affirming that his
reputation as an unbeliever was established before his history of
the Church had been written. The magnitude of Barbarism and
Religion is already apparent. Religion: The First Triumph will be
read not just as a remarkable analysis of the making of Decline and
Fall, but also as a comment on the collision of belief and
disbelief, a subject as pertinent now as it was to Gibbon's
eighteenth-century readers.
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