J. G. A. Pocock (The Johns Hopkins University)

Barbarism and Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume in Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion examines the controversy caused by Gibbon's treatment of the early Christian church. Pocock challenges the assumption that Decline and Fall was intended as an attack on belief in the Christian revelation, and questions our understanding of the character of 'enlightenment'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9781107667921
• ISBN-10: 1107667925
• Artikelnr.: 40003018

Autorenporträt

J. G. A. Pocock was educated at the Universities of Canterbury and Cambridge, and is now Harry C. Black Emeritus Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Gibbon's Orthodox Sources: 1. The Christian ancients: Eusebius and the fathers
2. The Catholic moderns: history and authority
Part II. The Sources of Protestant Enlightenment: 3. Jean Le Clerc and the history of language
4. The Historia Ecclesiastica and the impact of Le Clerc
5. Isaac de Beausobre: heresy, philosophy, history
6. Johann Lorenz von Mosheim: modern ecclesiastical historian
Part III. The Two Chapters Explored: 7. The English setting
8. Gibbon's fifteenth chapter: the spread of Christianity and the rise of the clergy
9. The sixteenth chapter: intolerance, persecution and philosophy
Part IV. Controversy and Continuation: 10. The reception of the two chapters and the invention of the author
11. Epilogue and prologue.