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Dominic Erdozain
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Oxford University Press
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November 2015
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Dominic Erdozain
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Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
November 2015
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From Freud to the new atheists, it is widely assumed that science is the enemy of religious faith. The idea is so pervasive that whole industries of religious apologetics converge around the challenge of Darwin, evolution, and the "secular worldview." This book challenges such assumptions by proposing a different cause of unbelief in the West: the Christian conscience. Tracing a history of doubt and unbelief from the Reformation to the age of Darwin and Karl Marx, The Soul of Doubt argues that the most powerful solvents of religious orthodoxy have been concepts of moral equity and personal freedom generated by Christianity itself. The book demonstrates that the radical criticism of philosophers as influential as Spinoza, Voltaire and Ludwig Feuerbach was not the product of science. It emerged from a collision between religious values and religious practices, preeminently acts of persecution. This study offers a bold interpretation of the Enlightenment as a movement of vigorous spirituality, and it turns on its head conventional wisdom about the impact of Darwin and scientific naturalism.
The "nemesis of faith" was not science or secular reason: it was an ethical intuition that a dangerous God cannot be real.
Author
Dominic Erdozain
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
November 2015
Weight
477g
Page Count
336
Dimensions
158 x 237 x 26 mm
ISBN
9780199844616
ISBN-10
0199844615
Eden Code
4331757
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Author/Creator: Dominic Erdozain
ISBN: 9780199844616
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: November 2015
Weight: 477g
Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 26 mm
Eden Code: 4331757