Exploring Doubt
Landscapes of Loss and Longing
Published on 29. September 2016
192 pages
978-0-232-53317-0 (ISBN)
Description
Christianity has often seemed impatient with the idea of doubt. Certainty, not irresolution, has been seen as the test of faith and key to unlocking participation in the supposed life to come. But when his marriage collapsed, Alex Wright knew that all his own certainties had been reduced to rubble. The future he had planned on the Norfolk coast disappeared as fast as a sea-fret burning up in the noonday sun.
In this moving book, written out of his own disturbing experience of deep-rooted uncertainty about the future, the author suggests that it is actually doubt, not conviction, which expresses the more important insights about religion and the spiritual life; and, indeed, about life itself.
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Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
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Alex Wright is Executive Editor for Classical Studies and Religion at I.B.Tauris, where he is also general editor of the I.B.Tauris Short Histories series. He has written two other books for DLT - Meanings of Life (2005) and Why Bother With Theology? (2002).
Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Endorsements
- Title Page
- Imprint
- Dedication Page
- Preface & Acknowledgements
- Intoduction
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
