LEADER 03729nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910816012403321 005 20240418004130.0 010 $a1-283-05787-5 010 $a9786613057877 010 $a0-300-16881-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300168815 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081083 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050165 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466791 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11316878 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466791 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10465990 035 $a(PQKB)10418027 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420665 035 $a(DE-B1597)485811 035 $a(OCoLC)711000208 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300168815 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420665 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10455043 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305787 035 $a(OCoLC)923595768 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081083 100 $a20100909d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe age of doubt $etracing the roots of our religious uncertainty /$fChristopher Lane 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (160 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-14192-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aThe 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 Brontė 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. 606 $aFaith 606 $aTheology, Doctrinal$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFaith$xHistory of doctrines$y19th century 606 $aBelief and doubt 615 0$aFaith. 615 0$aTheology, Doctrinal$xHistory 615 0$aFaith$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aBelief and doubt. 676 $a234/.23094209034 700 $aLane$b Christopher$f1966-$01594785 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816012403321 996 $aThe age of doubt$93982860 997 $aUNINA