| Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age Contributor(s): Lundin, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802830773 ISBN-13: 9780802830777 Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Faith - Religion | Christian Living - Spiritual Growth |
| Dewey: 270.8 |
| LCCN: 2008046503 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 302 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Evangelical - Theometrics - Mainline |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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 in tension between faith and doubt. 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 discussion, 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lundin, Roger: - Roger Lundin is Arthur F. Holmes Professor of Faith andLearning at Wheaton College, Illinois. His other booksinclude From Nature to Experience: The AmericanSearch for Cultural Authority. |