The Origins of Agnosticism Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge /
Bernard Lightman.
- 1 online resource (1 online resource x, 249 pages) : illustrations)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press, 1987
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and index.
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.