Author: Robert D. Priest
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191044466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Gospel According to Renan provides a new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century: Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus (Vie de Jésus). Published in 1863, Renan's book aroused enormous controversy through its claim to be a historically accurate biography of Jesus. While Life of Jesus provoked the ire of the Catholic Church in hundreds of sermons and pamphlets, it also sold hundreds of thousands of copies, making a fortune for its author and his publisher. Based on research into a huge range of print and manuscript sources, The Gospel According to Renan demonstrates how Renan's work intervened in a remarkable range of debates in nineteenth-century French cultural life. These went far beyond questions of religion, from the role of individuals in history to the meaning and significance of 'race'. Through an engaging reconstruction of Renan's intellectual formation, Priest shows how Renan's ideas grew out of the context of Parisian intellectual life after his loss of faith in the 1840s. Going beyond a traditional intellectual history, Priest uses a wide range of new manuscript sources, many of which have never been examined by modern historians, in order to reconstruct the ways that ordinary French men and women engaged with one of the great religious debates of their age. By tracing the legacy of Life of Jesus into the early years of the twentieth century, Priest finally shows how Renan's work found new political meaning in the heated debates over secularisation that divided French society in the young Third Republic.
The Gospel According to Renan
Author: Robert D. Priest
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191044466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Gospel According to Renan provides a new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century: Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus (Vie de Jésus). Published in 1863, Renan's book aroused enormous controversy through its claim to be a historically accurate biography of Jesus. While Life of Jesus provoked the ire of the Catholic Church in hundreds of sermons and pamphlets, it also sold hundreds of thousands of copies, making a fortune for its author and his publisher. Based on research into a huge range of print and manuscript sources, The Gospel According to Renan demonstrates how Renan's work intervened in a remarkable range of debates in nineteenth-century French cultural life. These went far beyond questions of religion, from the role of individuals in history to the meaning and significance of 'race'. Through an engaging reconstruction of Renan's intellectual formation, Priest shows how Renan's ideas grew out of the context of Parisian intellectual life after his loss of faith in the 1840s. Going beyond a traditional intellectual history, Priest uses a wide range of new manuscript sources, many of which have never been examined by modern historians, in order to reconstruct the ways that ordinary French men and women engaged with one of the great religious debates of their age. By tracing the legacy of Life of Jesus into the early years of the twentieth century, Priest finally shows how Renan's work found new political meaning in the heated debates over secularisation that divided French society in the young Third Republic.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191044466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Gospel According to Renan provides a new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century: Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus (Vie de Jésus). Published in 1863, Renan's book aroused enormous controversy through its claim to be a historically accurate biography of Jesus. While Life of Jesus provoked the ire of the Catholic Church in hundreds of sermons and pamphlets, it also sold hundreds of thousands of copies, making a fortune for its author and his publisher. Based on research into a huge range of print and manuscript sources, The Gospel According to Renan demonstrates how Renan's work intervened in a remarkable range of debates in nineteenth-century French cultural life. These went far beyond questions of religion, from the role of individuals in history to the meaning and significance of 'race'. Through an engaging reconstruction of Renan's intellectual formation, Priest shows how Renan's ideas grew out of the context of Parisian intellectual life after his loss of faith in the 1840s. Going beyond a traditional intellectual history, Priest uses a wide range of new manuscript sources, many of which have never been examined by modern historians, in order to reconstruct the ways that ordinary French men and women engaged with one of the great religious debates of their age. By tracing the legacy of Life of Jesus into the early years of the twentieth century, Priest finally shows how Renan's work found new political meaning in the heated debates over secularisation that divided French society in the young Third Republic.
Ernest Renan and His French Catholic Critics
Author: Vytas V. Gaigalas
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Lettre Pastorale de Mgr Plantier Évêque de Nîmes
Author: Catholic Church. Diocese of Nîmes. Bishop (1855-1875 : Plantier)
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Languages : fr
Pages : 56
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Languages : fr
Pages : 56
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Nieuwsblad Voor Den Boekhandel
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : nl
Pages : 274
Book Description
With 1855-1927 are issued and bound: Handelingen van de algemeene vergadering.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : nl
Pages : 274
Book Description
With 1855-1927 are issued and bound: Handelingen van de algemeene vergadering.
Oeuvres complètes de Ernest Renan: Études d'histoire religieuse. Le livre de Job. Le cantique des cantiques. L'Ecclésiaste. Conférences d'Angleterre. Nouvelles études d'histoire religieuse
Author: Ernest Renan
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Category : French literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 1146
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Category : French literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 1146
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Ernest Renan et la question religieuse en France
Author: Maurice Vernes
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Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 52
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Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 52
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Vie de E. Renan
Author: Ernest Le Peltier
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Languages : fr
Pages : 40
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Languages : fr
Pages : 40
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Œuvres complètes de Ernest Renan: Correspondance, 1845-1892
Author: Ernest Renan
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Category : Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Category : Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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La stratégie de M. Renan
Author: Philippe Gerbet
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Languages : fr
Pages : 220
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Languages : fr
Pages : 220
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