The Resource The age of doubt : tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty, Christopher Lane, (electronic book)
The age of doubt : tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty, Christopher Lane, (electronic book)
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- Summary
- The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the Bible had taught them about the world. In The Age of Doubt, distinguished scholar Christopher Lane tells the fascinating story of a society under strain as virtually all aspects of life changed abruptly. In deft portraits of scientific, literary, and intellectual icons who challenged the prevailing religious orthodoxy, from Robert Chambers and Anne Brontë to Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley, Lane demonstrates how they and other Victorians succeeded in turning doubt from a religious sin into an ethical necessity. The dramatic adjustment of Victorian society has echoes today as technology, science, and religion grapple with moral issues that seemed unimaginable even a decade ago. Yet the Victorians' crisis of faith generated a far more searching engagement with religious belief than the "new atheism" that has evolved today. More profoundly than any generation before them, the Victorians came to view doubt as inseparable from belief, thought, and debate, as well as a much-needed antidote to fanaticism and unbridled certainty. By contrast, a look at today's extremes--from the biblical literalists behind the Creation Museum to the dogmatic rigidity of Richard Dawkins's atheism--highlights our modern-day inability to embrace doubt
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 233 p.
- Contents
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- Introduction : putting faith in doubt
- Miracles and skeptics
- Stunned Victorians look backward and inward
- Feeling doubt, then drinking it
- Natural history sparks honest doubt
- Uncertainty becomes a way of life
- Faith-based certainty meets the gospel of doubt
- Isbn
- 9780300168815
- Label
- The age of doubt : tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty
- Title
- The age of doubt
- Title remainder
- tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty
- Statement of responsibility
- Christopher Lane
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the Bible had taught them about the world. In The Age of Doubt, distinguished scholar Christopher Lane tells the fascinating story of a society under strain as virtually all aspects of life changed abruptly. In deft portraits of scientific, literary, and intellectual icons who challenged the prevailing religious orthodoxy, from Robert Chambers and Anne Brontë to Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley, Lane demonstrates how they and other Victorians succeeded in turning doubt from a religious sin into an ethical necessity. The dramatic adjustment of Victorian society has echoes today as technology, science, and religion grapple with moral issues that seemed unimaginable even a decade ago. Yet the Victorians' crisis of faith generated a far more searching engagement with religious belief than the "new atheism" that has evolved today. More profoundly than any generation before them, the Victorians came to view doubt as inseparable from belief, thought, and debate, as well as a much-needed antidote to fanaticism and unbridled certainty. By contrast, a look at today's extremes--from the biblical literalists behind the Creation Museum to the dogmatic rigidity of Richard Dawkins's atheism--highlights our modern-day inability to embrace doubt
- Cataloging source
- CaPaEBR
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1966-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lane, Christopher
- Dewey number
- 234/.23094209034
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BT771.3
- LC item number
- .L36 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- standards specifications
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Faith
- Theology, Doctrinal
- Faith
- Belief and doubt
- Label
- The age of doubt : tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty, Christopher Lane, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : putting faith in doubt -- Miracles and skeptics -- Stunned Victorians look backward and inward -- Feeling doubt, then drinking it -- Natural history sparks honest doubt -- Uncertainty becomes a way of life -- Faith-based certainty meets the gospel of doubt
- Control code
- ebr10455043
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- vii, 233 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9780300168815
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Original version note
- Original electronic resource
- Other physical details
- ill., ports.
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- The age of doubt : tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty, Christopher Lane, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : putting faith in doubt -- Miracles and skeptics -- Stunned Victorians look backward and inward -- Feeling doubt, then drinking it -- Natural history sparks honest doubt -- Uncertainty becomes a way of life -- Faith-based certainty meets the gospel of doubt
- Control code
- ebr10455043
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- vii, 233 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9780300168815
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Original version note
- Original electronic resource
- Other physical details
- ill., ports.
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
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