LEADER 03301nam 2200601 450 001 9910795900203321 005 20230204125427.0 010 $a0-271-09243-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271092430 035 $a(CKB)5590000000962979 035 $a(OCoLC)1347732550 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_103496 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30253610 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30253610 035 $a(DE-B1597)644587 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271092430 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000962979 100 $a20230204d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGibbon's Christianity $ereligion, reason, and the fall of Rome /$fHugh Liebert 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cPennsylvania State University Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (196 pages) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aReligious controversies and conversions in the time of Gibbon -- Gibbon's autobiographies -- Essai -- The rise of Christianity -- General observations. 330 $aThere 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 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire did not merely seek to oppose Christianity; he confronted it as a philosophical and historical puzzle. Gibbon's Christianity tallies the results and conditions of that confrontation. Using 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 Decline and Fall 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. Eminently readable and wholly accessible to anyone interested in or familiar with the Decline and Fall,this groundbreaking reassessment of Gibbon's most famous work will appeal especially to scholars of eighteenth-century studies. 606 $aChristianity 607 $aRome$xHistory$yEmpire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D$xHistoriography 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aChristianity. 610 $aEarly Modern Travel Writing. 610 $aEdward Gibbon. 610 $aEighteenth-Century History. 610 $aFall of Rome. 610 $aHistoriography. 610 $aHistory of Religion. 610 $aRise of Christianity. 610 $aRoman Empire. 615 0$aChristianity. 676 $a808.1 700 $aLiebert$b Hugh$01074759 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795900203321 996 $aGibbon's Christianity$93736298 997 $aUNINA