TY - BOOK AU - Priest,Robert Daniel TI - The Gospel according to Renan: reading, writing, and religion in nineteenth-century France T2 - Oxford historical monographs SN - 9780191795534 (ebook) : AV - BR846.A U1 - 274.4081 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Renan, Ernest, KW - Christianity KW - Controversial literature KW - History and criticism KW - France KW - 19th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Ernest Renan's 'Life of Jesus' aroused enormous controversy when it was first published due to its claim to be a historically accurate biography of Jesus. This book demonstrates how Renan's work intervened in a remarkable range of debates in 19th-century French cultural life and reconstructs the ways that ordinary French men and women engaged with one of the great religious debates of their age UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728757.001.0001 ER -