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100 1 $aWilson, A. N.,$d1950-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77003675
245 10 $aGod's funeral /$cA.N. Wilson.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c1999.
300 $axi, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 371-384) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tGod's Funeral --$g2.$tHume's Time-bomb --$g3.$tThe Religion of Humanity --$g4.$tCarlyle --$g5.$tNot Angles but Engels --$g6.$tLiving in a Lumber-room --$g7.$tGeorge Eliot, The Word, and Lives of Jesus --$g8.$tA Passion for Generalizing: Herbert Spencer and the Modem --$g9.$tScience --$g10.$tSwinburne and the Gods --$g11.$tIn the Name of the Father --$g12.$tTwo Prophets: Arnold and Ruskin --$g13.$tThe Most Inexpressible Calamity --$g14.$tWilliam James --$g15.$tConclusion: The Modernist Experiment.
520 $aBy the end of the nineteenth century, almost all the great writers, artists, and intellectuals had abandoned Christianity; many had abandoned belief in God altogether. This was in part the result of scientific discovery, particularly the work of Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species and the controversy that followed. But the doubt about religion had many sources. A. N.
520 8 $aWilson demonstrates in this synthesis of biography and intellectual history that the real destruction of religions belief had been achieved well before Darwin's momentous publication.
520 8 $aYet despite the fact that the church had essentially become an edifice empty of faith, it survived into our century because so few of the fascinating, tortured people Wilson portrays could face the brutal consequences of their own logic. Whether or not God was dead, they still needed to believe, hence the great spiritual angst of their culture which is now echoed in ours.
650 0 $aReligion and science$xHistory$y19th century.
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