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Author Larsen, Timothy, 1967-

Title Crisis of doubt : honest faith in nineteenth-century England / Timothy Larsen
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 317 pages)
Contents Crisis of faith -- William Hone -- Frederic Rowland Young -- Thomas Cooper -- John Henry Gordon -- Joseph Barker -- John Bagnall Bebbington -- George Sexton -- How many reconverts were there? -- Crisis of doubt
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-304) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Skepticism -- England -- History -- 19th century
Secularism -- England -- History -- 19th century
Belief and doubt.
Dissenters, Religious -- England -- History -- 19th century
Belief and doubt
Dissenters, Religious
Secularism
Skepticism
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043270
Subject England
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0199287872
9780199287871