Religious scepticism
Subtitle: contemporary responses to Gibbon
By: edited and introduced by David Womersley.
Contributors: Womersley, David
Series: Key issues ;; no. 15; Key issues (Bristol, England) ;; 15.
Publisher: Thoemmes Press; Thoemmes Pr
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Bristol, England; Dulles, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.; Apologetics -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by David Womersley; title: Remarks on the two last chapters of Mr. Gibbon's history (1776) / by James Chelsum; title: An apology for Christianity, in a series of letters addressed to Edward Gibbon, esq. (1776) / by Richard Watson; title: A reply to the reasonings of Mr. Gibbon (1778) / by Smyth Loftus; title: An examination of the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of Mr. Gibbon's history (1778) / by Henry Edwards Davis; title: Gibbon's account of Christianity considered (1781) / by Joseph Miner; title: An history of the corruptions of Christianity / by Joseph Priestley; title: Bampton lectures, Sermon III (1784) / by Joseph White.