Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I

Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "e;free thought,"e; 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 s...