The Origins of Agnosticism : Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge - Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-; Project Muse. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)
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.
Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press, 1987
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Keywords: 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