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Unbelievers : an emotional history of doubt / Alec Ryrie. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2019.Edition: First Harvard University Press editionDescription: 262 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674241824
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT50.R995.U534 2019
  • BT50
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Contents:
An age of suspicion: Impostors, drunkards and flat-earthers -- The fool's heart -- Physicians, 'naturians' and 'Nulla fidians' -- From ancient to modern
The Reformation and the battle for credulity: Calvin and the Epicures -- Between superstition and impiety -- 'Doubt wisely': from innocence to experience
The atheist's comedy: Incest, thunder and wishful thinking -- Shaking off the yoke -- The good atheist
The Puritan atheist: 'The monster of the creation' -- Horrid temptations -- Fear of flying
Seeking and losing faith: 'It's a great matter to believe there is a God' -- The spiritualists' progress -- Farther up and farther in -- Seeking a rock to build on
The abolition of God: The three impostors -- From then to now, I: anger -- From then to now, II: anxiety -- From Jesus to Hitler.
Subject: "Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear through their diaries, letters, and court records. Ryrie traces the roots of atheism born of anger, a sentiment familiar to anyone who has ever cursed a corrupt priest, and of doubt born of anxiety, as Christians discovered their faith was flimsier than they had believed. As the Reformation eroded time-honored certainties, Protestant radicals defended their faith by redefining it in terms of ethics. In the process they set in motion secularizing forces that soon became transformational. Unbelievers tells a powerful emotional history of doubt with potent lessons for our own angry and anxious age"--
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"First published in Great Britain in 2019 by William Collins"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographies and index.

CHAPTER 1 -- An age of suspicion: Impostors, drunkards and flat-earthers -- The fool's heart -- Physicians, 'naturians' and 'Nulla fidians' -- From ancient to modern

CHAPTER 2 -- The Reformation and the battle for credulity: Calvin and the Epicures -- Between superstition and impiety -- 'Doubt wisely': from innocence to experience

CHAPTER 3 -- The atheist's comedy: Incest, thunder and wishful thinking -- Shaking off the yoke -- The good atheist

CHAPTER 4 -- The Puritan atheist: 'The monster of the creation' -- Horrid temptations -- Fear of flying

CHAPTER 5 -- Seeking and losing faith: 'It's a great matter to believe there is a God' -- The spiritualists' progress -- Farther up and farther in -- Seeking a rock to build on

CHAPTER 6 -- The abolition of God: The three impostors -- From then to now, I: anger -- From then to now, II: anxiety -- From Jesus to Hitler.

"Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear through their diaries, letters, and court records. Ryrie traces the roots of atheism born of anger, a sentiment familiar to anyone who has ever cursed a corrupt priest, and of doubt born of anxiety, as Christians discovered their faith was flimsier than they had believed. As the Reformation eroded time-honored certainties, Protestant radicals defended their faith by redefining it in terms of ethics. In the process they set in motion secularizing forces that soon became transformational. Unbelievers tells a powerful emotional history of doubt with potent lessons for our own angry and anxious age"--

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