Crisis of Doubt

Larsen gives us valuable and interesting accounts...A valuable book. David Nash, English Historical Review Tim Larsen has a keen eye for a good topic, and in Crisis of Doubt he has found his best yet...his text so closely mimicks the organisation of studies asserting the wider significance of plebeian doubt, there is a pleasing echo of the similarly robust publications produced by the protagonists on both sides of the debate between plebeian doubters and reconverts that Larsen has sympathetically and even-handedly reconstructed from his sources. Arthur Burns, Journal of Ecclesiastical History well-written and gently provocative book...this book is an excellent and challenging addition to the literature on nineteenth-century religious thought and should lead on to further study...It is also refreshing to read a book which is so well writtin that it is very hard to put down. Mark D. Chapman, Journal of Theological Studies insightful, well-research book. Thomas Albert Howard, Journal of the American Association of Religion A book which is so well written that it is very hard to put down. Journal of Theological Studies Tim Larsen has a keen eye for a good topic, and in...Crisis of Doubt...he has found his best yet. Journal of Ecclesiastical History This standard scholarly account has become so entrenched that it is rarely even questioned. Timothy Larsen challenges this common story, and does so brilliantly in Crisis of Doubt...[it] is a very welcome and timely study of how powerful many of those commonplace historical narratives can become - and of how important it is that we keep questioning them. Harold K. Bush, Jr., Touchstone Timothy Larsen challenges this common story, and does so brilliantly in Crisis of Doubt...Thus does Larsen accomplish here revisionist history at its very best...Scholars on this side of the Atlantic would do well to take Larsen's conclusions and apply then to American intellectual or literary history of the same period. Such research would undoubtedly uncover similar results. risis of Doubt is a very welcome and timely study of how powerful many of thos commonplace historical narratives can become, and of how important it is that we keep questioning them, especially when it appears that their veracity has become institutionalized and largely unquestioned. Touchstone Magazine Tim Larsen has indeed refreshed this field of study. He challenges us to refocus our attention and ask: was this an age marked more by crises of faith or crises of doubt? Tony Cross, Faith and Freedom Larsen's thesis is intriguing, and supported with a wealth of erudite evidence. Anthony Kenny, TLS Larsen's book is a reminder that you cannot measure the culture of an age by reference to a few controversial figures Jeremy Morris, The Tablet Larsen's book is a very interesting one. Chruch Times