Athens and Jerusalem

The Philosophical Critique of Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Enlightenment

Winfried Schröder (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53612-8 (ISBN)

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A comparative analysis of the objections raised against Christianity by late antique philosophers (Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate) and Enlightenment freethinkers, focusing on discussions concerning the Bible, the concept of faith, religious coercion, miracles, and morality.

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.

Winfried Schröder, Ph.D. (1986), is Professor of History of Philosophy at Philipps-Universität Marburg. He is co-editor of Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, editor of the series Philosophische Clandestina der deutschen Aufklärung and Freidenker der europäischen Aufklärung, and of major texts of the radical Enlightenment (i.a. De tribus impostoribus; Traité des trois imposteurs; Symbolum sapientiae). He has published monographs about Spinozism in the Enlightenment, moral nihilism, and atheism, including Ursprünge des Atheismus (2nd ed. 2012).

Contents

1 Philosophy and Christianity: The Occidental Synthesis

2 The Return of the Ostracized

1 Late Antique Critics of Christianity in the Early Modern Era

2 Difficulties with Late Antiquity

3 The Attack on Holy Scripture

4 Philosophical-Theological Dissent

1 Faith

2 Miracles

3 Morality

5 Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 344
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	557 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-53612-4 / 9004536124
ISBN-13	978-90-04-53612-8 / 9789004536128
Zustand	Neuware