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Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-Revolutionary Europe

Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-Revolutionary Europe

Curran, Mark

Hardcover

Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New, Book 83

PhilosophyGeneral ChristianityGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0861933168
ISBN13: 9780861933167
Publisher: Royal Historical Soc
Published: Jun 21 2012
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
An investigation into the influence of, and reaction to, the atheistic writings of the baron d'Holbach.

The Baron d'Holbach, a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment, is best known for his writings against religion. His prolific campaign of atheism and anti-clericalism, waged from the printing presses of Amsterdam in the yearsaround 1770, was so radical that it provoked an unprecedented public response. For the baron's enemies, at least, it suggested the end of an era: proof that the likes of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were simply a cabal of atheists hell-bent on the destruction of all that was to be cherished about religion and society. The philosophes, past their prime and under fire, recognised the need to respond, but struggled to know which way to turn. France's institutional bodies, lacking unity and fatally distracted, provided no credible lead. Instead, the voice of reason came from an unlikely source - independent Christian apologists, Catholic and Protestant, who attacked the baron on his own terms and, in the process, irrevocably changed the nature of Christian writing.

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