The Christians and the Fall of Rome
by Edward Gibbon
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Gibbon's subversive and iconoclastic description of the rise of Christianity inspired outrage upon publication and remains one of the most eloquent and damning indictments of the delusory nature of faith.Tags
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A short extract of the great oeuvre of Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline an Fall of the Roman Empire, this book is concerned with the primitive Christians and the spread of Christianity in the roman world. Considering this was written and published in 1776, it is a matter of wonder to see the very unflattering way the primitive Christians, their beliefs, and their way of living is sometimes portraied by Gibbons.
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- The Christians and the Fall of Rome
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- 1776
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A candid but rational inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity may be considered as a very essential part of the history of the Roman empire.
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- The Christians and the Fall of Rome is a short, 96-page extract from volume 1 of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, (Womersley's Penguin edition). Please do not combine it with eit... (show all)her the complete multi-volume work, or the complete versions of volume 1. Also, to avoid confusion and prevent mistaken combinations, please do not give this work the same canonical name as the complete work from which it is excerpted. The extracts and abridgments are considered separate works from the complete edition, for LibraryThing's work system.
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- Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality, General Nonfiction
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- 270.1 — Religion History of Christianity History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Apostolic; Nativity to Constantine
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- BR170 .G38 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christianity Christianity History By period Early and medieval
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