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The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge

The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge

Lightman, Bernard

Paperback

Atheism & AgnosticismSports GeneralGeneral European History

ISBN10: 1421431408
ISBN13: 9781421431406
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Originally published in 1987. 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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