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Melancholy duty : the Hume-Gibbon attack on Christianity / by Stephen Paul Foster.
Van Pelt Library B1499.R45 F67 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, Stephen Paul.
- Series:
- Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 154.
- Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas ; 154
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hume, David, 1711-1776.
- Hume, David.
- Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
- Gibbon, Edward.
- Christianity--Controversial literature--History and criticism.
- Christianity.
- Christianity--Controversial literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 355 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht ; Boston, Mass. : Kluwer Academic, [1997]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Hume, Gibbon, and the Attack on Christianity 1
- 2 Philosophic History and the Critique of Orthodoxy 55
- 3 "Of Miracles" at Work in the Decline and Fall 93
- 4 The Demise of Immortality 129
- 5 Persecution, Platonism, and the Virulence of Metaphysics 163
- 6 Monkish Virtues and Conventional Morality: The Moral Critique of Religion 191
- 7 Politics and Fanaticism 213
- 8 The Priest and the Prince: Co-opting the Church 239
- 9 Naturalizing Religion: Superstition, Enthusiasm, and Religious Conduct 265
- 10 Attacking Christianity: By Way of Islam 307.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-350) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0792347854
- OCLC:
- 37518979
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