Edward gibbon and christianity

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Since the appearance of volume I of The decline and fall of the Roman empire in , the religion of Edward Gibbon has been subject to intense debate. He has been variously identified as an atheist, a deist, even as a somewhat detached Christian. Examination of his relations, both personal and scholarly, with the varieties of religion and irreligion current in eighteenth-century Britain leads to the conclusion that he remained resolutely critical of all such positions. He did not share the convictions of dogmatic freethinkers, still less those of determined atheists. The product of a nonjuring family, Gibbon benefited from the scholarly legacy of several high church writers, while maintaining a critical attitude towards the claims of Anglican orthodoxy. It was through the deliberate and ironical adoption of the idiom of via media Anglicanism, represented by such theologians as the clerical historian John Jortin, that Gibbon developed a woundingly sceptical appraisal of the history of the early church. This stance made it as difficult for his contemporaries to identify Gibbon's religion as it has since proved to be for modern historians. Gibbon appreciated the central role of religion in shaping history, but he remained decidedly sceptical as to Christianity's ultimate status as r

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

– work of history by Edward Gibbon

This article is about the book. For the historical events, see Fall of the Western Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire. For the board war game, see Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (game).

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, sometimes shortened to Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. The six volumes cover, from 98 to , the peak of the Roman Empire, the history of early Christianity and its emergence as the Roman state religion, the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, the rise of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane and the fall of Byzantium, as well as discussions on the ruins of Ancient Rome.^[1][2]

Volume&#;I was published in and went through six printings.^[3] Volumes&#;II and III were published in ;^[4][5] volumes&#;IV, V, and VI in –^[6][7][8][9] The original volumes were published in quarto sections, a common publishing practice of the time.

Conception and writing

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Gibbon's initial plan was to write a history "of the decline and fall of the city of Rome", and only later expanded his scope to the