Gibbon's Christianity : religion, reason, and the fall of Rome /

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 Christianit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liebert, Hugh (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/j.ctv31r2n1b
Table of Contents:
  • Religious controversies and conversions in the time of Gibbon
  • Gibbon's autobiographies
  • Essai
  • The rise of Christianity
  • General observations.