Religious Thought in the Victorian Age Challenges and Reconceptions

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Religious Background and Contexts of the Late Victorian Controversies.................7 The Pre-1860 Background ............7 The Controversy over the Ethics of Belief .............13 The Agnostic Controversies after 1850...........20 2. God and the world - The Reign of Law: Design, providence, and teleology.................32 The Context of the Argument from Design after 1860..............39 The Unitary vision of Providence and the Reign of Natural Law ..................44 3. God and the world - The Reign of Law: Providence, evil, and Theodicy ................69 The Christian Theodicy and Darwin.........72 The Christian Darwinian theodicy............81 The Theodicy of the Personal Idealists ............91 The Theodicy of F.R. Tennant and James ward ..........96 Providence and theodicy at the Turn of the Century .............100 4. God and the world: The Reign of Law and Miracle .........106 The Legacy of J S Mill: Baden Powell on Miracles ..........109 Miracles in the Debates of the Metaphysical Society ..........121 The Broad church view: Miracle and Zeitgeist .......126 Miracle and the lux mundi theologians ................135 5. Humanity`s Place in Nature- The Challenge to Christian Anthropology : Human Origins , the fall, and sin .................150 Darwin on the descent and Future of Mankind ........156 The Premature death of Adam : Evolution and the Reconceiving of the Doctrines of the Fall and Sin .............174 6. Humanity`s Place in Nature - The Challenge to Christian Anthropology: Mind, Free will and the Foundation of Morals ............192 The later criticiqes: James ward to william James .........210 Herbert Spencer and the Evolutionary foundation of Morals ...............218 7. The New Science of Religion: Christianity`s Relation to other Faiths .................230 The British Pioneers in the new Science of REligion..........237 The Consolidation of the Science of Religion in Britain and Its influence on Chrisian theology .............256