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John Henry Newman, Edward Gibbon, and the true character of history

December 26, 2017 Edward Short 6

The rise of Christianity, for Newman, primarily involved those who accepted and cooperated with God’s particular Providence and those who rejected and spurned it. Gibbon, […]