Treatise on the nature and causes of doubt, in religious questions (with a particular reference to Christianity)
Subtitle: with an appendix on some common difficulties; Lists of Books, &c. &c.
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
Published: 1831
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Skepticism.; Religion.
Notes: By D. B. Baker.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: PART I.; title: INTELLECTUAL CAUSES.; title: CHAP. I. MISCONCEPTIONS AS TO THE "NATURE" OF THE PROOF IN RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS 1; title: II. INADEQUATE ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE "FACTS"  OF THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE 19; title: PART II.; title: MORAL CAUSES.; title: CHAP. I. EXCESS IN SOME LEGITIMATE PROPENSITIES 41; title: II. PRIDE  55; title: III. WANT OF ADEQUATE SERIOUSNESS 67; title: IV. FEAR  71; title: CONCLUSION 77; title: APPENDIX.; title: 1. Natural Religion. — 2. Lord Byron. — 3. Fornication.-— 4. Universal Scepticism. — 5. Hume. — 6. Taylor, Owen, Carlile, &c.— 7. Gibbon.— 8. Materialism.— 9. Mr. Lawrence. — 10. Medical Scepticism. — 11. Geology. — 12. Varieties in the Human Race. — 13. Works on the Evidences. — 14. Misery of Scepticism. — 15. Spiritual Assistance.— 16. Efficacy of Prayer. — 17. Forms of Prayers.— 18. Difficulties in the Scriptures, Translations, &c. — 19. Science and Revelation, not opposed.— 20. Learned Believers.