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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

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