TY - BOOK AU - Lightman,Bernard V. ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge SN - 9781421430300 AV - BL2747.2 .L54 1987 U1 - 211/.7/09034 19 KW - Agnosticism KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Great Britain KW - Intellectual life KW - Electronic books. KW - lcgft KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/69480/ ER -