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Author : Richard J. Helmstadter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804716021
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Robert Maxwell Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015008299946
Fr. Richard Schiefen collection.
Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191537059
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.
Author : Richard J Helmstadter,Bernard Lightmand
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1349109762
Author : Robert Maxwell Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:833667324
Author : Anthony Symondson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164522383
Author : Christopher Lane
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300168815
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."
Author : J. Jeffrey Franklin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501715464
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
Author : Giles St. Aubyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 0955383323
Studies a number of Victorians who were deeply troubled by religious doubts, including Tennyson, Carlyle, J A Froude, Francis Newman, George Eliot, Colenso and Jowett. One of the book's principal concerns is to investigate the causes of their misgivings. Many Victorians blamed Darwin for unsettling their faith. In doing so, they ignored the fact that doubts about Christianity preceded the publication of On the Origin of Species by some 1800 years. Modern scepticism has its roots in the Renaissance and Reformation and more recently in 18th century Deism - Darwin marked the end of the process rather than its beginning. And it is worth pointing out that the issues with which Souls in Torment is chiefly concerned are just as relevant today as they were to the Victorians who feature in its pages.
Author : Dominic Erdozain
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835288
The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British culture: the world of leisure.
Author : McManis Professor of Christian Thought Timothy Larsen,Timothy Larsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1435622936
A corrective to the Victorian 'crisis of faith', this study focuses upon several prominent individuals who experienced a 'crisis of doubt' and made the reverse journey, abandoning secularism to defend Christianity. Their stories demonstrate the intellectual strength of faith in the 19th century.
Author : Herbert Schlossberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351526777
Contrary to its popular image as dull and stodgy, the Victorian period was one of revolutionary change. In its politics, its art, its economic aff airs, its class relationships, and in its religion, change was constant. A half-century after Queen Victoria's death, it was said that she was born in one world and died in another. Th e most interesting and valuable studies of the period take the long view, as does Schlossberg, in his fascinating analysis of religious life in this period. For the Victorians, religion was not cordoned off from the push and shove of real life. Th e early evangelicals got off to a shaky start, beset by hostility, but the movement spread within the churches despite the suspicion in which it was held. Evangelicals, frequently called Puritans by those who opposed them, called for fundamental reforms in both the Church and the society; a social ethic was part of their program of religious renewal. Th eir moral sense explains the social activism of both Church of England Evangelicals and Dissenters, including the half-century crusade for the abolition of slavery. Schlossberg shows how religion in England dealt with such issues as science and the eff ect of German scholarship on religious thinking. Church history cannot simply be explained by its response to external forces as much as by the internal responses to those challenges. Th e nature of the religious enterprise itself, its theologians, clergy, lay people--like all people and all institutions--all responded with alternatives. Schlossberg helps us understand the Victorian period, as well as the increasing secularity of English life today.
Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781444397703
Alister McGrath’s Christian Theology: An Introduction is one of the most internationally-acclaimed and popular Christian theology textbooks in use today. This 5th edition has been completely revised, and now features new and extended material, numerous additional illustrations, and companion resources, ensuring it retains its reputation as the ideal introduction to Christian theology. Fully updated 5th edition of the bestselling textbook, incorporating expanded material, numerous student features and new illustrations Features new sections on Copernicanism and Darwinism Includes extended discussions of Augustine’s doctrine of creation, Trinitarian theologies of religion, and the relation of Christianity to other faiths May be used as a stand-alone volume, or alongside the Christian Theology Reader, 4th edition for a complete overview of the subject Retains the chapter structure of the 4th edition, ensuring comparability with earlier editions and courses based on these Accompanied by a revised instructor’s website featuring expanded resources including study questions and answers; visit www.wiley.com/go/mcgrath for more details and to register for access
Author : James R. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521285178
The Post-Darwinian Controversies offers an original interpretation of Protestant responses to Darwin after 1870, viewing them in a transatlantic perspective and as a constitutive part of the history of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought. The impact of evolutionary theory on the religious consciousness of the nineteenth century has commonly been seen in terms of a 'conflict' or 'warfare' between science and theology. Dr. Moore's account begins by discussing the polemical origins and baneful effects of the 'military metaphor', and this leads to a revised view of the controversies based on an analysis of the underlying intellectual struggle to come to terms with Darwin. The middle section of the book distinguishes the 'Darwinism' of Darwin himself amid the main currents of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought, and is followed by chapters which examine the responses to Darwin of twenty-eight Christian controversialists, tracing the philosophical and theological lineage of their views. The paradox that emerges - that Darwin's theory was accepted in substance only by those whose theology was distinctly orthodox theology and of other evolutionary theories with liberal and romantic theological speculation.
Author : Elizabeth M. Sanders
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476629216
Nineteenth-century Britain gave birth to the fantasy novel and the science fiction novel—two of today’s most popular genres. During the same period, the traditional Christian beliefs that had underpinned British society for centuries faced new challenges as geological discoveries, the writings of Charles Darwin and exposure to other cultures gave rise to a Victorian “crisis of faith.” These two shifts—one literary, one cultural—were deeply intertwined. The novel, a literary form that was developed as a vehicle for realism, when infused with unreal elements offered a space to ponder questions about the supernatural, the difference between belief and knowledge, and humanity’s place in the world. The author explores how questions of meaning, identity and faith inspired the speculative fiction of today’s novels, films, television shows and comics.
