Christianity Changes the Conditions of Government

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Econ Journal Watch, 2024, vol. 21, issue 1, 235–250

Abstract: Three brief chapters of The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889) capture some the book’s important ideas about the composition of ancient polytheism, and how the universal benevolence of Christianity’s monotheistic gospel would in time spell a new world. “[T]o obey Cæsar is no longer the same thing as to obey God.” The book, originally in French, was first published in 1864. In a foreword to the selection, Fustel de Coulanges’s book is related to Larry Siedentop’s book Inventing the Individual: Origins of Western Liberalism.

Keywords: Paterfamilias; cult; polytheism; monotheism; Christianity; religion; liberalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A12 A13 B10 B11 B12 Z1 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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