Melancholy Duty the Hume-Gibbon Attack on Christianity
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
- Publish date: 12/01/1997
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1 Introduction: Hume, Gibbon, and the Attack on Christianity.- 2 Philosophic History and the Critique of Orthodoxy.- 3 "Of Miracles" at Work in the Decline and Fall.- 4 The Demise of Immortality.- 5 Persecution, Platonism, and the Virulence of Metaphysics.- 6 Monkish Virtues and Conventional Morality: The Moral Critique of Religion.- 7 Politics and Fanaticism.- 8 The Priest and the Prince: Co-opting the Church.- 9 Naturalizing Religion: Superstition, Enthusiasm, and Religious Conduct.- 10 Attacking Christianity: By Way of Islam.- Conclusion.- Bibliography of Sources Cited.
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