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Book SynopsisCharles Cashdollar reinterprets nineteenth-century British and American Protestant thought by identifying positivism as the central intellectual issue of the era. Positivism meant, at first, the ideas of the French thinker Auguste Comte; later in the century, the term indicated a more general opposition to supernatural religion. Cashdollar shows th
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Abbreviations, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Introduction. "The Bugbear of the Modern Religious Mind", pg. 1*1. "Tolerably Familiar to Most": Comte and the British Clergy to 1853, pg. 21*2. "That Dilutedcomtism": Positivism and the British Clergy, 1853-1865, pg. 57*3. "Its Fertile Suggestion": Positivism and the American Clergy to 1865, pg. 93*4. "In The Mouth Of Every Man": Positivism and the Theologians, 1865-1890, pg. 142*5. "By The Company They Keep": Positivism's Association With Darwinism and Biblical Criticism, pg. 182*6. "Wholly And Finally Given": The Believing Positivists, pg. 209*7. "Scepticism Afraid of Itself ": Church Authority and Biblical Literalism, pg. 237*8. "We Who Have Broken Loose": Radical Unitarians and Theists, pg. 281*9. "Supplementing the Old Work": The Judicious Conservatives, pg. 329*10. "New Wine in New Bottles": The Liberals, pg. 373*Epilogue. "In Common With Ourselves, pg. 441*Bibliography, pg. 449*Index, pg. 481
