Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-,

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.

Open Access

9781421430300


Agnosticism--History--19th century.


Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

BL2747.2 / .L54 1987

211/.7/09034