Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Download or read book Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to clarify and understand the challenges made to both the framework of thinking about God and religion in the 17th and 18th centuries and to the intellectual systems that had supported religious thinking earlier. Ample attention is given to early-modern interpretations of ancient Pyrrhonism and to biblical criticism.