Genius of Christianity

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• cafard · Dec 11, 2023 · Mentions

  …serves, none of his editors believe that he accurately described his travels in North America. A book about how to talk about places you've never been draws heavily on Chateaubriand. I have not read The Genius of Christianity, but his outspoken commitment to Christianity seems not to have constrained him in ways that most Christian sects might have expected of him. Perhaps Sainte-Beuve had it right in calling him "an Epicurian…

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• Aidevah · Mar 11, 2022 · Mentions

  …later saved his life during the wars against the young revolutionary government of France by stopping a bullet). He extracted one book after another from this, starting with the Essay on Revolutions, The Genius of Christianity, and The Voyage to America. >The late autobiographical work, however, retains much of his youthful power: considerable portions had been written much earlier, and the title. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb,…

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