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Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The eucharist
Exodus
The New Testament
Fathers
Ambrose
Augustine
Paschase
Ratramn
Berengar
Lanfranc
Guitmund
Thomas
Wyclif
Luther
Trent
The seventeenth century
The Calvinists
Descartes
Frequent communion
The refusal of last rites
Eucharistic dogma

2. Voltaire and the eucharist
The earliest satire
The rites controversy
Colmar
Essai sur les mœurs
The late fifties and early sixties
The Easter communion of 1768
Easter in 1769
The publications of 1768 and 1769
Last writings
Voltaire's interest in the eucharist

Works cited

Index

Voltaire and the Eucharist

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    Publisher: LUP - Voltaire Foundation
    Publication Date: 1/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780729402644, 978-0729402644
    ISBN10: 0729402649
    Also in:
    Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Philosophy and Religion

    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Table of Contents
    Abbreviations

    Introduction

    1. The eucharist
    Exodus
    The New Testament
    Fathers
    Ambrose
    Augustine
    Paschase
    Ratramn
    Berengar
    Lanfranc
    Guitmund
    Thomas
    Wyclif
    Luther
    Trent
    The seventeenth century
    The Calvinists
    Descartes
    Frequent communion
    The refusal of last rites
    Eucharistic dogma

    2. Voltaire and the eucharist
    The earliest satire
    The rites controversy
    Colmar
    Essai sur les mœurs
    The late fifties and early sixties
    The Easter communion of 1768
    Easter in 1769
    The publications of 1768 and 1769
    Last writings
    Voltaire's interest in the eucharist

    Works cited

    Index

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