Atheism in France, 1650-1729. Volume I, The orthodox sources of disbelief /
Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of ""free thought, "" Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself. In this first volume of a...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990] |
| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of ""free thought, "" Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself. In this first volume of a planned two-volume inquiry into the sources and nature of atheism, he shows that orthodox teachers and apologists in seventeenth-century France were obliged by the logic of their philosophical and pedagogical systems to create many models of speculative atheism for heuristic purposes. Unusual in its broad sampling o. No detailed description available for "Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I". |
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| Item Description: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 7, 2014). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400860791 1400860792 |