Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-

The Origins of Agnosticism : Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge / Bernard Lightman. - 1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press, 1987

The power of modern agnosticism -- The adnostic conundrum -- Mansel and the Kantian tradition -- Herbert Spencer and the worship of the unknowable -- Disillusionment with attack on orthodoxy -- Religion, theology, and the church agnostic -- The new natural theology and the holy trinity of agnosticism -- The tragedy of agnosticism.

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Intellectual life.
Agnosticism.
Agnosticisme--Histoire--19e siecle.
Agnosticism--History--19th century.


Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne--Vie intellectuelle--19e siecle.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.


History.
Electronic books.