{"product_id":"9780792347859","title":"Melancholy Duty: The Hume-Gibbon Attack on Christianity","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMelancholy Duty: The Hume-Gibbon Attack on Christianity\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFoster, S.P.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book studies the complementary features of the thought of  David Hume and Edward Gibbon in the complete range of its  confrontation with eighteenth-century Christianity. The ten chapters  explore the iconoclasm of these two philosophical historians -  Hume as the premier philosopher, Gibbon as the consummate historian  - as they labored to `naturalize' the study of Christianity,  particularly with attention to its social and political dimensions. No  other work deals as comprehensively or thoroughly with the attempt of  philosophical history's challenge to Christianity. Belief in miracles  and the afterlife, the dimensions of fanaticism and superstition, and  the nature of religious persecution were the themes that occupied Hume  and Gibbon in the making of their critique of Christianity. This book  makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in a number of fields  including the history of ideas, religious studies, and philosophy. It  will be of interest to philosophers of religion, historians of ideas,  eighteenth-century intellectual historians, scholars of the Scottish  Enlightenment, and Hume and Gibbon scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1997-11-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792347859\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-017-2235-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 234.0cm x156.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 362.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45378882175116,"sku":"9780792347859","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792347859_7144970c-5dfa-4424-9a31-5eac2ded523d.jpg?v=1765470588","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792347859","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}