Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England

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: Timothy Larsen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 330
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 5.80h x 8.64w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780199287871

Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 07/01/2007 pg. 9
Christian Century 07/24/2007 pg. 41
Christianity Today 08/01/2007 pg. 57

About the Author

Timothy Larsen is Professor of Theology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.

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