{"id":4195,"date":"2006-12-06T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/12\/crisis-ofsomething.html"},"modified":"2006-12-06T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T10:00:22","slug":"crisis-ofsomething","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/12\/crisis-ofsomething.html","title":{"rendered":"Crisis of…something."},"content":{"rendered":"

John Wilson got me all interested in his "book of the year" over at Books and Culture:<\/a><\/p>\n

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And now to the Book of the Year: Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England<\/strong>,<\/a> by Timothy Larsen (Oxford Univ. Press). You know the familiar story, according to which virtually every thinking person in late-Victorian England either lost his faith or maintained a pale simulacrum of genuine belief. While Timothy Larsen acknowledges that there were of course plenty of instances of deconversion, in his new book he draws attention to a counternarrative that has been widely overlooked, embodied in the experience of men and women who moved from doubt or resolute skepticism to Christian faith. In chapter after chapter of brilliantly condensed biography, he tells the stories of individuals whose lives followed this second course. This is a book that will force honest scholars to reconsider what they thought they knew.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Awesome. Clicked on the link.<\/p>\n

$110!<\/p>\n

Clicked on the UK Amazon site, thinking…must be a mistake. Nope. – \u00a3 60!<\/a><\/p>\n

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