The Victorian crisis of faith has dominated discussions of religion
and the Victorians. Stories are frequently told of prominent
Victorians such as George Eliot losing their faith. This crisis is
presented as demonstrating the intellectual weakness of
Christianity as it was assaulted by new lines of thought such as
Darwinism and biblical criticism. This study serves as a corrective
to that narrative. It focuses on freethinking and Secularist
leaders who came to faith. As sceptics, they had imbibed all the
latest ideas that seemed to undermine faith; nevertheless, they
went on to experience a crisis of doubt, and then to defend in
their writings and lectures the intellectual cogency of
Christianity. The Victorian crisis of doubt was surprisingly large.
Telling this story serves to restore its true proportion and to
reveal the intellectual strength of faith in the nineteenth
century.
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