Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief

by Alan Charles Kors

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691609063
• ISBN13: 9780691609065
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"