Word Crimes
Word Crimes

Author: Joss Marsh

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-08-15

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780226506913

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In 1883 newspaper editor G.W. Foote stood trial three times for blasphemy. Here Joss Marsh reconstructs the forgotten cases of more than 200 working-class "blasphemers" in Victorian England, whose stubborn refusal to silence their "hooligan" voices, along with Foote, helped secure our rights to speak and write freely today. 22 photos.

The Origins of Agnosticism
The Origins of Agnosticism

Author: Bernard Lightman

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2019-12-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1421431416

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Originally published in 1987. The Origins of Agnosticism provides a reinterpretation of agnosticism and its relationship to science. Professor Lightman examines the epistemological basis of agnostics' learned ignorance, studying their core claim that "God is unknowable." To address this question, he reconstructs the theory of knowledge posited by Thomas Henry Huxley and his network of agnostics. In doing so, Lightman argues that agnosticism was constructed on an epistemological foundation laid by Christian thought. In addition to undermining the continuity in the intellectual history of religious thought, Lightman exposes the religious origins of agnosticism.