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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-304) and index