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9781421431406 Academic Inspection Copy

The Origins of Agnosticism

Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781421431406
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Bernard Lightman
  • Price: AUD $102.00
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2020
  • Format: Paperback 264 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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Bernard Lightman provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. He examines the epistemological basis of agnostics' learned ignorance, studying their core claim that ""God is unknowable."" To address this question, Professor Lightman reconstructs the theory of knowledge posited by Thomas Henry Huxley and his network of agnostics. In doing so, Lightman argues that agnosticism was constructed on an epistemological foundation laid by Christian thought. In addition to undermining the continuity in the intellectual history of religious thought, Lightman exposes the religious origins of agnosticism.

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