A history of freethought : ancient and modern
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A history of freethought : ancient and modern
Thoemmes Press, 2001
- : set
- v. 1
- v. 2
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Watts, 1936
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
John Mackinnon Robertson (1856-1933), scholar and man of letters, was a Rationalist and humanist who wrote voluminously on a wide range of intellectual and literary projects. This work and the following grew out of the successful "A Short History of Freethought" (1915). This first work covers the period from early man's doubts about gods through to the end of the 18th century.
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: primitive freethinking
- progress under ancient religions
- relative freethought in Israel
- freethought in Greece
- freethought in Ancient Rome
- ancient Christianity and its opponents
- freethought under Islam
- Christendom in the Middle Ages
- freethought in the Renaissance
- the Reformation politically considered
- the Reformation and freethought. Volume 2: the rise of modern freethought
- British freethought in the 17th century
- British freethought in the 17 century
- French and Dutch freethought in the 17th century
- British freethought in the 18th century
- French freethought in the 18th century
- German freethought in the 17th century and 18th century
- freethought in the remaining European states.
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