Gibbon and the Clergy: Private Virtues, Public Vices
When the inaugural volume of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in February 1776, the English public greeted it with a mixture of veneration and anxiety. Many agreed that it was a classic work, but some critics, mostly clergy, questioned its treatment of Christia...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1990
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1990, Volume: 83, Issue: 4, Pages: 399-414 |
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