The Origins of Agnosticism

Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge

Bernard Lightman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2020
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-3140-6 (ISBN)

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Originally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological basis of agnostics' learned ignorance, studying their core claim that "God is unknowable." To address this question, he reconstructs the theory of knowledge posited by Thomas Henry Huxley and his network of agnostics. In doing so, Lightman argues that agnosticism was constructed on an epistemological foundation laid by Christian thought. In addition to undermining the continuity in the intellectual history of religious thought, Lightman exposes the religious origins of agnosticism.

Bernard Lightman is a professor of the history of science at York University. He specializes in the relationship between science and unbelief in the Victorian era, and he is a former president of the History of Science Society.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Power of Modern Agnosticism
Chapter 1. The Agnostic Conundrum
Chapter 2. Mansel and the Kantian Tradition
Chapter 3. Herbert Spencer and the Worship of the Unknowable
Chapter 4. Disillusionment with and Attack on Orthodoxy
Chapter 5. Religion, Theology, and the Church Agnostic
Chapter 6. The New Natural Theology and the Holy Trinity of Agnosticism
Conclusion. The Tragedy of Agnosticism
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.09.2019
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4214-3140-8 / 1421431408
ISBN-13	978-1-4214-3140-6 / 9781421431406
Zustand	Neuware