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Crisis of Doubt

By Timothy Larsen

Crisis of Doubt

By Timothy Larsen

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The Victorian crisis of faith has dominated discussions of religion and the Victorians. Stories are frequently told of prominent Victorians such as George Eliot losing their faith. This crisis is presented as demonstrating the intellectual weakness of Christianity as it was assaulted by new lines of thought such as Darwinism and biblical criticism. This study serves as a corrective to that narrative. It focuses on freethinking and Secularist leaders who came to faith. As sceptics, they had imbibed all the latest ideas that seemed to undermine faith; nevertheless, they went on to experience a crisis of doubt, and then to defend in their writings and lectures the intellectual cogency of Christianity. The Victorian crisis of doubt was surprisingly large. Telling this story serves to restore its true proportion and to reveal the intellectual strength of faith in the nineteenth century.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
330
Release Date:
2007-01-18
Publication Date:
2007-01-01
Publisher:
OUP UK
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199287872
ISBN13:
9780199287871
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
598 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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