Exploring Doubt: Landscapes of Loss and Longing - Softcover

Wright, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0232530602 ISBN 13: 9780232530605

Publisher: Darton Longman & Todd Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

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, which expresses the more important insights about religion and the spiritual life; and, indeed, about life itself.

About this title

From the Author:

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 two other books for DLT – Meanings of Life (2005) and Why Bother With Theology? (2002).

About the Author:

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 two other books for DLT – Meanings of Life (2005) and Why Bother With Theology? (2002).

(Alex Wright)

About this edition

• Publisher: Darton Longman & Todd Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0232530602
• ISBN 13: 9780232530605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192