TY - JOUR
AU - Lebrun, Richard A.
AB - 1376 Reviews of Books ality, or sexology are no longer adequate descriptions gists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For of the object or the terrain of historical research. various reasons, these defenders of the Christian con­ Instead, they believe, they are moving historians of ception of God against a perceived rising tide of sexuality in a new direction, following a path charted atheism had borrowed heavily from philosophical ar­ by women's studies that rejects the narrow, bipolar guments used by the earliest Christian apologists against the atheism of antiquity. With both sides models of sex current in biology in order to study the broader questions of gender. To describe this new kind focusing on philosophical issues, the person of Jesus of history, they suggest that it be called the study of was largely ignored, to the detriment of an effective "sexual culture," and they would emphasize individual Christian apologetic. In both instances, if Buckley and interpretations and not favor Barnett are correct, Christian controversialists have a experience and collective one or the other side. This implies that the collection lot to answer for. under review is different than others in using this new Like Buckley, Barnett argues that 
TI - S. J. Barnett. Idol Temples and Crafty Priests: The Origins of Enlightenment Anticlericalism. New York: St. Martin's. 1999. Pp. xii, 197. $59.95
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/105.4.1376
DA - 2000-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/s-j-barnett-idol-temples-and-crafty-priests-the-origins-of-2LJmsYjkO6
SP - 1376
EP - 1377
VL - 105
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -