The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

by Christopher Lane

Book Overview

By analyzing the parallel battles over faith and reason in the nineteenth century and ours, scholar Christopher Lane makes a case for the benefits of 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300141920
• ISBN13: 9780300141924
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.9"