Gibbon S Antagonism To Christianity

Author : Shelby Thomas McCloy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046761222

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Gibbon's Antagonism to Christianity by Shelby Thomas McCloy Pdf

The Gibbon Controversy began in 1776 with the publication of the first volume ofThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and has continued to the present. Gibbon stated that he believed an inseparable connection existed between the decline of the Roman Empire and the growth and triumph of the church. The present comprehensive account of the controversy reveals that it has been of larger proportions than has generally been known. Originally published in 1933. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Shelby Thomas McCloy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : LCCN:lc68001849

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Gibbon's Antagonism to Christianity by Shelby Thomas McCloy Pdf

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : PRNC:32101077785127

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History of Christianity: Comprising All that Relates to the Progress of the Christian Religion in "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," and A Vindication of Some Passages in the 15th and 16th Chapters by Edward Gibbon Pdf

Author : Joseph Milner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1781
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : BL:A0018965275

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Gibbon's Account of Christianity Considered by Joseph Milner Pdf

Author : Charlotte Roberts
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191014901

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Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History by Charlotte Roberts Pdf

Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent awareness of the dangers these values pose to coherence and narrative order. In this study, Charlotte Roberts demonstrates how these dynamics also inform the 'character' of the Decline and Fall: in which ironic difference confronts enervating uniformity; oddity counters specious lucidity; and revision combats repetition. Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History explores the Decline and Fall as a work of scholarship and of literature, tracing both its expansive outline and its expressive details. A close examination of each of the three instalments of Gibbon's history reveals an intimate relationship between the style of Gibbon's narrative and the overall shape of his historiographical composition. The constant interplay between style and substance, or between the particular details of composition and the larger patterns of argument and narrative, informs every aspect of Gibbon's work: from his reception of established and innovative historiographical conventions to the expression of his narrative voice. Through a combination of close reading and larger literary and scholarly analysis, Charlotte Roberts conveys a sense of the Decline and Fall as a work more complex and conflicted, in its tone and structure, than has been appreciated by previous scholars, without losing sight of the grand contours of Gibbon's superlative achievement.

Author : Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134778928

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Who's Who in Christianity by Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok Pdf

Who's Who in Christianity is an invaluable reference guide to the leading men and women who have influenced the course of Christian history, including the founding fathers, monarchs, popes, saints, philanthropists, heretics, theologians and missionaries. The book encompasses the Eastern and Western Churches, and the lives and opinions of personalities who have shaped the past twenty Christian centuries, from Jesus of Galilee to Pope John Paul II, Paul of Tarsus to Mother Teresa. Who's Who in Christianity provides: * an accessible and user-friendly A-Z layout * detailed bibliographical information on each prominent figure * a glossary of technical terms * a chronological table of the chief historical events * an invaluable guide for scholars, teachers, clergy, students and general readers.

Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271046242

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The Enlightened Joseph Priestley by Robert E. Schofield Pdf

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestley, probably because he was simply too many persons for anyone easily to comprehend in a single study. Robert Schofield has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to this task. The result is a magisterial book, covering the life and works of Priestley during the critical first forty years of his life. Although Priestley is best known as a chemist, this book is considerably more than a study in the history of science. As any good biographer must, Schofield has thoroughly studied the many activities in which Priestley was engaged. Among them are theology, electricity, chemistry, politics, English grammar, rhetoric, and educational philosophy. Schofield situates Priestley, the provincial dissenter, within the social, political, and intellectual contexts of his day and examines all the works Priestley wrote and published during this period. Schofield singles out the first forty years of Priestley's life because these were the years of preparation and trial during which Priestley qualified for the achievements that were to make him famous. The discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterize the mature Priestley - all are foreshadowed in the young Priestley. A brief epilogue looks ahead to the next thirty years when Priestley was forced out of England and settled in Pennsylvania, the subject of Schofield's next book. But this volume stands alone as thedefinitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.

Author : Shelby Thomas McCloy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UCAL:B3367578

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Gibbon's Antagonism to Christianity and the Discussions that it Has Provoked by Shelby Thomas McCloy Pdf

Author : John Greville Agard Pocock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9781107091467

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Barbarism and Religion by John Greville Agard Pocock Pdf

Sixth and final volume in an acclaimed series situating Edward Gibbon in a series of contexts in eighteenth-century European history

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Christianity
ISBN : OCLC:38968391

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Gibbon on Christianity by Edward Gibbon Pdf

Author : Joseph Milner
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019846933

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Gibbon's Account of Christianity Considered by Joseph Milner Pdf

This scholarly work provides an analysis of Edward Gibbon's account of the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, as well as a critique of David Hume's views on religion. The author offers a nuanced perspective on the historical and philosophical issues involved, making this book a valuable resource for scholars and students of religion and philosophy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : S.P. Foster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401722353

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Melancholy Duty by S.P. Foster Pdf

This book studies the complementary features of the thought of David Hume and Edward Gibbon in the complete range of its confrontation with eighteenth-century Christianity. The ten chapters explore the iconoclasm of these two philosophical historians - Hume as the premier philosopher, Gibbon as the consummate historian - as they labored to `naturalize' the study of Christianity, particularly with attention to its social and political dimensions. No other work deals as comprehensively or thoroughly with the attempt of philosophical history's challenge to Christianity. Belief in miracles and the afterlife, the dimensions of fanaticism and superstition, and the nature of religious persecution were the themes that occupied Hume and Gibbon in the making of their critique of Christianity. This book makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in a number of fields including the history of ideas, religious studies, and philosophy. It will be of interest to philosophers of religion, historians of ideas, eighteenth-century intellectual historians, scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, and Hume and Gibbon scholars.

Author : Joseph Milner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0428981070

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Gibbon's Account of Christianity Considered: Together with Some Strictures on Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Classic Reprint) by Joseph Milner Pdf

Excerpt from Gibbon's Account of Christianity Considered: Together With Some Strictures on Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion The reader may be convinced of this, if he pleafe to perufe the Contents, in which he will find, unavoidably fome, but not many mate rials, that have been ufed by other writers on this occafion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Great Minds Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0879756748

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On Christianity by Edward Gibbon Pdf

Written originally as the 15th and 16th chapters of his great work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788), On Christianity joined the growing number of revisionist histories whose authors rejected the view that popular support of Christianity was miraculously preordained. Gibbon interprets the ascendancy of Christianity in terms of natural social causes, laying bare the paucity of evidence for the supernatural guidance of church actions.

Author : Henry Edwards Davis
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101997012X

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An Examination of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of Mr. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Henry Edwards Davis Pdf

An Examination of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of Mr Gibbons History is a scholarly critique of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The author argues that Gibbon's view of the progress of the Christian religion is based on misrepresentation of the sources he cites, revealing the biases and errors in Gibbon's account of history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.