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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
1. An Age of Suspicion
Impostors, Drunkards and Flat-Earthers
The Fool’s Heart
Physicians, ‘Naturians’ and ‘Nulla Fidians’
From Ancient to Modern
2. The Reformation and the Battle for Credulity
Calvin and the Epicures
Between Superstition and Impiety
‘Doubt Wisely’: From Innocence to Experience
3. The Atheist’s Comedy
Incest, Thunder and Wishful Thinking
Shaking Off the Yoke
The Good Atheist
4. The Puritan Atheist
‘The Monster of the Creation’
Horrid Temptations
Fear of Flying
5. Seeking and Losing Faith
‘It’s a Great Matter to Believe there is a God’
The Spiritualists’ Progress
Farther Up and Farther In
Seeking a Rock to Build On
6. The Abolition of God
The Three Impostors
From Then to Now, I: Anger
From Then to Now, II: Anxiety
From Jesus to Hitler
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
About the Author
Also by Alec Ryrie
About the Publisher
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