Victorian Faith in Crisis
Title | Victorian Faith in Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Helmstadter |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780804716024 |
A Stanford University Press classic.
Crisis of Doubt
Title | Crisis of Doubt PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Larsen |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2006-11-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0191537055 |
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.
The Victorian Crisis of Faith
Title | The Victorian Crisis of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Maxwell Young |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Fr. Richard Schiefen collection.
The Age of Doubt
Title | The Age of Doubt PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Lane |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0300168810 |
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 Bronte; 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."
Spirit Matters
Title | Spirit Matters PDF eBook |
Author | J. Jeffrey Franklin |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501715461 |
Orthodox Christianity, scientific materialism, and alternative religions -- The evolution of occult spirituality in Victorian England and the representative case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- Anthony Trollope's religion : the orthodox/heterodox boundary -- The influences of Buddhism and comparative religion on Matthew Arnold's theology -- Interpenetration of religion and national politics in Great Britain and Sri Lanka : William Knighton's Forest life in Ceylon -- Identity, genre, and religion in Anna Leonowens' The English governess at the Siamese court -- Ancient Egyptian religion in late-Victorian England -- The economics of immortality : the demi-immortal Oriental, Enlightenment vitalism, and political economy in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Conclusion : from Victorian occultism to new age spiritualities
The Victorian crisis of faith
Title | The Victorian crisis of faith PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Symondson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Age of Atheists
Title | The Age of Atheists PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Watson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 640 |
Release | 2014-02-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1476754314 |
Examines atheism as a modern intellectual achievement that has motivated individuals to pursue invention and self-reliance, citing the accomplishments of secular philosophers, scientists, and artists who have worked in the absence of religious belief.