Exploring Doubt: Landscapes of Loss and Longing
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Exploring Doubt: Landscapes of Loss and Longing  -     By: Alex Wright

Exploring Doubt: Landscapes of Loss and Longing

Augsburg Books / 2020 / Paperback

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Christianity has often seemed impatient with the idea of doubt. Certainty, not irresolution, has been seen as the test of faith and key to unlocking participation in the supposed life to come. But when his marriage collapsed, Alex Wright knew that all his own certainties had been reduced to rubble. The future he had planned on the Norfolk coast disappeared as fast as a sea-fret burning up in the noonday sun. In this moving book, written out of his own disturbing experience of deep-rooted uncertainty about the future, the author suggests that it is actually doubt, not conviction, that expresses the most important insights about religion and the spiritual life and, indeed, about life itself.

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Title: Exploring Doubt: Landscapes of Loss and Longing
By: Alex Wright
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 142
Vendor: Augsburg Books
Publication Date: 2020
Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.5 X 0 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 1506462235
ISBN-13: 9781506462233
Stock No: WW462234

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Christianity has often seemed impatient with the idea of doubt. Certainty, not irresolution, has been seen as the test of faith and key to unlocking participation in the supposed life to come. But when his marriage collapsed, Alex Wright knew that all his own certainties had been reduced to rubble. The future he had planned on the Norfolk coast disappeared as fast as a sea-fret burning up in the noonday sun. In this moving book, written out of his own disturbing experience of deep-rooted uncertainty about the future, the author suggests that it is actually doubt, not conviction, that expresses the most important insights about religion and the spiritual life and, indeed, about life itself.

Author Bio

Alex Wright is Executive Editor for Classical Studies and Religion at I.B.Tauris, where he is also general editor of the I.B.Tauris Short Histories series. He has written other books, Meanings of Life (2005) and Why Bother With Theology? (2002).

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