Athens and Jerusalem : The Philosophical Critique of Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Enlightenment / Winfried Schröder.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 344. | Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2023Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Winfried Schröder -- Copyright page / Winfried Schröder -- Chapter 1 Philosophy and Christianity: The Occidental Synthesis / Winfried Schröder -- Chapter 2 The Return of the Ostracized / Winfried Schröder -- Chapter 3 The Attack on Holy Scripture / Winfried Schröder -- Chapter 4 Philosophical-Theological Dissent / Winfried Schröder -- Chapter 5 Epilogue / Winfried Schröder -- Bibliography / Winfried Schröder -- Index of Biblical Passages / Winfried Schröder -- Index of Anonymous Texts / Winfried Schröder -- Index of Names / Winfried Schröder -- Index of Subjects / Winfried Schröder.
The present study, for the first time, provides a comparative analysis of the objections raised against Christianity by late antique pagan philosophers (esp. Celsus in Alethes logos , Porphyry in Contra Christianos , and Julian the Apostate in Contra Gali-laeos ) and Enlightenment philosophers and freethinkers and examines the impact of pagan thinking on the critique of Christianity in the 16th to 18th centuries – in particular, on discussions concerning the authority of the Bible, biblical exegesis, the Christian concept of faith, religious coercion and the uniformity of faith, the belief in miracles, and the Christ-ian understanding of morality.
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