Crisis of Doubt - Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England

Zusatztext Larsen's book is a very interesting one. Informationen zum Autor Timothy Larsen is Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Illinois, USA, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A corrective to the much-discussed Victorian `crisis of faith', this study focuses upon several prominent individuals who experienced a `crisis of doubt' and made the reverse journey, abandoning secularism to defend Christianity. Their stories demonstrate the intellectual strength of faith in the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Crisis of Faith 2: William Hone 3: Frederic Rowland Young 4: Thomas Cooper 5: John Henry Gordon 6: Joseph Barker 7: John Bagnall Bebbington 8: George Sexton 9: How Many Reconverts Were There? 10: Crisis of Doubt

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• Authors: Timothy Larsen, Timothy (Professor of Theology Larsen, Larsen Timothy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2006
• EAN: 9780199287871
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928787-1
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, RELIGION / Christianity / Anglican, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Episcopalian, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, History of Religion, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Church history, Spirituality and religious experience, Anglican and Episcopalian Churches, Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England