{"product_id":"gibbons-christianity-religion-reason-and-the-fall-of-rome","title":"Gibbon’s Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere 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 \u003ci\u003eThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e did not merely seek to oppose Christianity; he confronted it as a philosophical and historical puzzle. \u003ci\u003eGibbon’s Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e tallies the results and conditions of that confrontation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing 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 \u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEminently readable and wholly accessible to anyone interested in or familiar with the \u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethis groundbreaking reassessment of Gibbon’s most famous work will appeal especially to scholars of eighteenth-century studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49718084993368,"sku":"9780271092362","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780271092362_42965af5-6096-49db-bd6b-aa74916d1ff5.jpg?v=1766472344","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/gibbons-christianity-religion-reason-and-the-fall-of-rome","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}