Crisis of Doubt

Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-928787-1
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 598 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larsen, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Anglikanische und episkopale Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy Larsen is Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Illinois, USA, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society