Barbarism and Religion Volume 5 Religion The First Triumph 1st Edition by Pocock ISBN 0521760720 978-0521760720
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ISBN 10: 0521760720
ISBN 13: 978-0521760720
Author: J. G. A. Pocock
This fifth volume in John Pocock’s acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon’s treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy in unprecedented depth, Pocock challenges the assumption that Gibbon wrote with the intention of destroying belief in the Christian revelation, and questions our understanding of the character of ‘enlightenment’. Reconsidering the genesis, inception and reception of these crucial chapters of Decline and Fall, Pocock explores the response of Gibbon’s critics, affirming that his reputation as an unbeliever was established before his history of the Church had been written. The magnitude of Barbarism and Religion is already apparent. Religion: The First Triumph will be read not just as a remarkable analysis of the making of Decline and Fall, but also as a comment on the collision of belief and disbelief, a subject as pertinent now as it was to Gibbon’s eighteenth-century readers.
Table of contents:
PART I – GIBBON’S ORTHODOX SOURCES
The Christian Ancients: Eusebius and the Fathers
The Catholic Moderns: History and Authority
PART II – THE SOURCES OF PROTESTANT ENLIGHTENMENT
Jean Le Clerc and the History of Language
The Historia Ecclesiastica and the Later Works of Le Clerc
Isaac de Beausobre: Heresy, Philosophy, History
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim: Modern Ecclesiastical Historian
PART III – THE TWO CHAPTERS EXPLORED
The English Setting
Gibbon’s Fifteenth Chapter: The Spread of Christianity and the Rise of the Clergy
The Sixteenth Chapter: Intolerance, Persecution, and Philosophy
PART IV – CONTROVERSY AND CONTINUATION
The Reception of the Two Chapters and the Invention of the Author
Epilogue and Prologue
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