The age of doubt tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty by christopher lane pp vii 233 new haven and london yale university press 2011 2600 gbp1800 in this elegantly written book christopher lane tells the story of victorian doubt by exploring the public and private writing of figures such as thomas carlyle charles lyell. The age of doubt tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty by lane christopher pp x 238 new haven london yale university press 2011 gbp1800. Lane c age of doubt tracing the roots of our religious u lane christopher isbn 9780300141924 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The roots of victorian doubt take us far into the eighteenth century when scientists and philosophers began openly to question biblical accounts of the earths creation geologists studying cliffs and ravines publicly doubted whether a single flood could have covered the entire planet much less whether one man and his family could have rescued every species of animal on earth from it philosophers too openly challenged the idea of the miraculous in doing so they also cast doubt on . Pthe victorian era was the first great age of doubt and a critical moment in the history of western ideas leading nineteenth century intellectuals battled the church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the bible had taught them about the world in ithe age of doubt i distinguished scholar christopher lane tells the fascinating story of a