The Soul of Doubt
The Religious Roots of Unbelief from Luther to Marx
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 October 2015
- ISBN 9780199844616
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages338 pages
- Size 236x157x25 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Dominic Erdozain argues that the real solvents of orthodoxy in the modern period have been concepts of moral equity and personal freedom generated by Christianity itself.
MoreLong description:
It is widely assumed that science is the enemy of religious faith. The idea is so pervasive that entire 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, Dominic Erdozain argues that the most powerful solvents of religious orthodoxy have been concepts of moral equity and personal freedom generated by Christianity itself.
Revealing links between the radical Reformation and early modern philosophers such as Baruch Spinoza and Pierre Bayle, Erdozain demonstrates that the dynamism of the Enlightenment, including the very concept of "natural reason" espoused by philosophers such as Voltaire, was rooted in Christian ethics and spirituality. The final chapters explore similar themes in the era of Darwin and Marx, showing how moral revolt preceded and transcended the challenges of evolution and "scientific materialism" in the unseating of religious belief. The picture that emerges is not of a secular challenge to religious faith, but a series of theological insurrections against divisive accounts of Christian orthodoxy.
a clear and lively counternarrative addressed to those who still believe religion can only restrain rather than liberate and that Christianity necessarily opposes what modernity values. For this audience, including many students as well as committed secularists with their own entrenched interpretations of the canonical figures Erdozain studies, this should be a valuable and important study.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
Introduction: Desecularizing Doubt
1. The Prophets Armed: Luther and the making and breaking of conscience
2. "To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine. It is to kill a man": the wars of religion and the virtues of doubt
3. The Metaphysics of Mercy: Calvin and Spinoza
4. In Search of a Father: Voltaire's Christian Enlightenment
5. "A damnable doctrine": Darwin and the soul of Victorian doubt
6. The God that Failed: Feuerbach, Marx, and the politics of salvation
Conclusion: in Augustine's shadow
