Book Release: "Defense of the Genius of Christianity" by François-René de Chateaubriand
Defense of the Genius of Christianity François-René de Chateaubriand Buy the Kindle Edition Here Chateaubriand (1761-1848) was a major French author of his time, and one of the forefathers of Romanticism, but he is little-read today. (Though, circumstantially, a newly-translated anthology of his writings was just released a week and a half ago, which views him from the angle of his anti-Enlightenment and anti-Revolutionary thought.) One of his greatest works is the Genius of Christianity , an apology for the Catholic religion primarily on the basis of its effect on aesthetics and morals, rather than a philosophical or theological defense. Though wildly popular, it also had its critics; to rebut his critics, Chateaubriand, inspired by Montesquieu's Defense of the Spirit of the Laws , wrote this Defense . Unfortunately for English readers, the only available translation of the Genius (as far as I have found) omits this addition. To remedy this lack, I ha...