Believing again
Subtitle: doubt and faith in a secular age
By: Roger Lundin.
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780802830777
Subjects: Christianity and culture -- History -- 19th century; Christianity and literature -- History -- 19th century; Secularism -- History -- 19th century; Christianity and culture -- History; Christianity and literature -- History; Secularlism -- History
Description: In Believing Again Roger Lundin explores the cultural consequences of the rather sudden nineteenth-century emergence of unbelief as a widespread social and intellectual option in the English-speaking world. Lundin's narrative focuses on key poets and novelists from the past two centuries -- Dostoevsky, Dickinson, Melville, Auden, and more -- showing how they portray the modern mind and heart balancing between belief and unbelief. Lundin engages these literary luminaries through chapters on a series of vital subjects, from history and interpretation to beauty and memory. Such theologians as Barth and Balthasar also enter the fray, facing the challenge of modern unbelief with a creative brilliance that has gone largely unnoticed outside the world of faith. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: History; title: Science; title: Belief; title: Interpretation; title: Reading; title: Beauty; title: Story; title: Conclusion : memory.