Sermons on various subjects and occasions. Edited by ... W. H. Walker
Author : William Jones
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1830
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Author : William Jones
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1830
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Author : William Jones
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Page : 422 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Sermons, English
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Author : William Jones
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File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 1830
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Author : John Leslie (Bookseller.)
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 1856
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Page : 796 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Books
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Author : William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.)
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1832
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Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
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Page : 834 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 1899
Category : American literature
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Author : John Keble
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
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Page : 830 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 1871
Category : American literature
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Author : Hugh Liebert
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0271092432
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.