TY  - GEN
T1  - Gibbon's Christianity : religion, reason, and the fall of Rome
A1  - Liebert, Hugh
LA  - English
PP  - University Park, Pennsylvania
PB  - The Pennsylvania State University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1347732550
AB  - 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.
OP  - 196
CN  - DG206.G5 L54 2022
SN  - 9780271092430
SN  - 0271092432
SN  - 9780271092355
KW  - Gibbon, Edward, : 1737-1794 : Religion.
KW  - Gibbon, Edward, : 1737-1794. : History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
KW  - Gibbon, Edward, : 1737-1794
KW  - History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon, Edward)
KW  - Christianity.
KW  - Church history : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 : Historiography.
KW  - Rome : History : Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. : Historiography.
KW  - Christianisme.
KW  - Église : Histoire : ca 30-600 (Église primitive) : Historiographie.
KW  - Rome : Histoire : 30 av. J.-C.-476 (Empire) : Historiographie.
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837).
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church history : Primitive and early church : Historiography
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Religion
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
KW  - Autobiography.
KW  - Early Modern Travel Writing.
KW  - Edward Gibbon.
KW  - Eighteenth-Century History.
KW  - Fall of Rome.
KW  - Historiography.
KW  - History of Religion.
KW  - Rise of Christianity.
KW  - Roman Empire.
KW  - History
ER  -