Believing Again

Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age

Paperback, 302 pages

English language

Published Jan. 27, 2009 by W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co..

ISBN:
978-0-8028-3077-7
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OCLC Number:
262878962

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In Believing Again Roger Lundin brilliantly 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.

Lundin's Believing Again is a beautifully written, erudite examination of the drama and dynamics of belief in the modern world. In Believing Again Roger Lundin brilliantly explores the cultural consequences of the rather sudden nineteenth-century emergence of …

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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