1. Religion as Bankrupt: Catholic Theologians and the Origins of Modern Atheism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: “This Damnable Paradoxe” 1
5. 1. Religion as Bankrupt: Catholic Theologians and the Origins of Modern Atheism 37
6. 2. The Existence of God and the New Philosophic Consciousness 68
7. 3. The Assimilation of Theology into the New Philosophic Consciousness 145
8. 4. The Atheistic Transformation of Denis Diderot 194
9. 5. Atheism as the System of Nature: Baron Paul Henri d’Holbach 251
10. 6. The Dialectical Origins of Atheism 322
11. Abbreviations 364
12. Notes 367
13. Name Index 429
14. Subject Index 437