Table of Contents: Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Prologue: the objectivity of the historian
1. Agreda
2. Nestorius
II. The historian as moralist
3. ‘La racine du mal’: the psychology of total depravity and the pyschology of the historian
4. Godliness and good learning: the ethics of the Republic of Letters
III. History, criticism and faith
5. ‘Les têtes de l’Hydre’: theological method and historical method
6. The Ariadne’s thread: Bayle and Scripture
IV. Theology and history
7. ‘Le doigt de Dieu’ and ‘ le théâtre du monde’: the philosophy of history
8. ‘Le rire des honnêtes gens’: historical iconoclasm: conclusion
Appendices
Appendix I. Nestorius: the background
Appendix II. Biblical articles in the Dictionnaire
Appendix III. The lives of the popes
Bibliography
Index