The Christians and the Fall of Rome (Penguin Great Ideas)

by Edward Gibbon

Paperback, 2005

Call number

809 G

Collection

Nonfiction

Genres

General Nonfiction

History

Religion & Spirituality

Publication

Penguin Books (2005), 96 pages

Description

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.

Subjects

Church history

Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Rome History Empire, 284-476 Early works to 1800

User reviews

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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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