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Aug 17, 2020 · Three quarters of the book is an account of various strands of unorthodox and radical Christian thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is Ryrie’s view that unbelief emerged out of Reformation Protestantism.
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Feb 25, 2020 · In his book Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt, author Alec Ryrie, a professor of the history of Christianity at Durham University in England, sets out to give a broad history of unbelief based not so much on logic as on emotions—more specifically, anger and anxiety.
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Apr 22, 2020 · Unbelievers has been widely and favorably reviewed, and the book comes with warm endorsements from a handful of distinguished scholars. And yet as I have read it and re-read it, Ryrie’s “emotional history” seems deeply muddled to me.
Apr 21, 2022 · By design, this book is light on citations, aiming for the wider readership of interested skeptics and believers looking for new ways to map their own faith and lack thereof. That’s all fine, but it means the links between Ryrie’s work and the bigger conversations happening in the field of critical secularism studies aren’t developed here.
Nov 19, 2019 · 220 ratings57 reviews. The award-winning author of Protestants offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women--so often left out of the history of atheism. Why have societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular?
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Jun 15, 2015 · 5,834 ratings426 reviews. It’s Louis’ senior year, and he’s dead set on doing it right. However, along with his pair of cleats, a healthy dose of sarcasm and his ridiculous best friend, he’s also got a complicated family, a terrifyingly uncertain future, and a mortal enemy making his life just that much worse. Mortal enemies “with ...
Religion. History. From this author. Christianity. Recommendations. “How has unbelief come to dominate so many Western societies? The usual account invokes the advance of science and rational knowledge. Ryrie’s alternative, in which emotions are the driving force, offers new and interesting insights into our past and pres...
