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The age of doubt : tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty /

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lane, Christopher, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.