Author:
Lundin, Roger.
Imprint:Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., c2009.
Descriptionx, 292 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:History -- Science -- Belief -- Interpretation -- Reading -- Beauty -- Story -- Conclusion : memory.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:In Believing Again Roger Lundin explores the cultural consequences of the rather sudden nineteenth-century emergence of unbelief as a widespread social and intellectual option in the English-speaking world. Lundin's narrative focuses on key poets and novelists from the past two centuries -- Dostoevsky, Dickinson, Melville, Auden, and more -- showing how they portray the modern mind in tension between faith and doubt. Lundin engages these literary luminaries through chapters on a series of vital subjects, from history and interpretation to beauty and memory. Such theologians as Barth and Balthasar also enter the discussion, facing the challenge of modern unbelief with a creative brilliance that has gone largely unnoticed outside the world of faith. --from publisher description
