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The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe

Essays in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Religion

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. David Jasper

    1. Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology, University of Durham, UK

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  2. T. R. Wright

    1. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Poetics and Narrative

    • Stephen Prickett
    Pages 1-22

  3. ‘Can These Dry Bones Live?’

    • Michael Wheeler
    Pages 23-36

  4. A Renovation of Images

    • John Kent
    Pages 37-52

  5. Truth to Nature

    • Hilary Fraser
    Pages 53-68

  6. Doubting Clerics

    • Rosemary Ashton
    Pages 69-87

  7. Doubt and the Victorian Woman

    • Elisabeth Jay
    Pages 88-103

  8. Doubting Castle

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 104-119

  9. The Genealogy of Honest Doubt

    • Robert M. Ryan
    Pages 120-130

  10. The Successful Failure of Ordering Structures in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King

    • James E. Barcus
    Pages 131-144

  11. Victorian Certainty and Zulu Doubt

    • Martin Jarrett-Kerr
    Pages 145-157

  12. The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe

    • Karl-Josef Kuschel
    Pages 158-190

  13. Ernest Renan and the Religion of Science

    • Bernard M. G. Reardon
    Pages 191-205

  14. Von Hügel and the Will to Believe

    • Nicholas Sagovsky
    Pages 206-217

  15. Hans Urs von Balthasar

    • John Coulson
    Pages 218-232

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 233-239
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology, University of Durham, UK

    David Jasper

  • University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    T. R. Wright

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