... not construct atheistic worldviews to give plausibility to any emerging disbeliefs, and he has no way of linking a Calvinist's anxiety about salvation or a Jansenist's revulsion at the ecclesiastical hierarchy to any abandonment of a theistic worldview. The “doubts” that, for Ryrie, will lead us to unbelief...

... arguments having come to an end. The book s last words leave us in a kind of mystical silence: Belief and unbelief are poses the mind adopts in the face of an unimaginable reality. A godless world is as mysteri- ous as one suffused with divinity, and the difference between the two may be less than you...

... and place, there can be only one such mode, with no alternatives. Burke discusses historians and social scientists of the twentieth century, notably Lucien Febvre and Karl Mannheim, who argued that some thoughts were impossible in some periods and that “unbelief” or “atheism,” for instance, was literally...

... are the they, like us, novel tells the since, hecannot, which he if could, even unbelief” and of cowardice “phantoms as them orexposing goblins these exorcising in ested world.” splendor as the orheroismin Forster notis thing inter nois such “there that insisting by hopes their mocking...

... called “the great problem of the conditions and limits of free-thinking in the sixteenth century.” 37 Febvre argued (like Mannheim, whether he was aware of him or not) that some thoughts were impossible in some periods. “Unbelief” or “atheism,” for instance, was literally unthinkable in the sixteenth...

..., in mathematics, gives a positive result. . . . It’s as if we were 40 obliged to refer to action as “non-inaction,” to hope as “non-hopelessness,” or to faith as “non-unbelief.” Antipolitics, Konrád’s coinage, strikes me as most adequate—better than the terms...

..., in mathematics, gives a positive result. . . . It’s as if we were 40 obliged to refer to action as “non-inaction,” to hope as “non-hopelessness,” or to faith as “non-unbelief.” Antipolitics, Konrád’s coinage, strikes me as most adequate—better than the terms...

..., which checks the make to was officer laterA patrol unbeliefs. about their literal very being ply mean what really the patrol officertook itto andthethat mean, Daribi weresim faces disappear.” It took me several decades to realize that this statement does not dead...

... to the former was obligatory. was former the to latter the from hence migrate to of unbelief; a land than better him, to according was, influence of Christian but free Muslims amoral and unjust by inhabited land al...

..., for that refusal is what served to establish his heresy as obstinate and pertinacious. This was the most drastic form of heresy, a category of unbelief that in turn demanded the most drastic of punishments (although Bruno’s sentence, in conventional Inquisitorial form, also...

... , Van Nuffelen • Fuzzy Studies: Part 3 461 48 1990 Comparative and cal Criti Studies Unbelief: and Pluralism Religious in Empire...

... the In news. new, always always to change, to unbelief. and belief of both problematics the dants) descen and moreover suggests a path toward innumerable freeing its our discipline definitively and of school sociological French the of spirit the (in ology of the humorous enlightened...

... of He waited. The crowd withdrew. François Couperin, despised by all and having lost even the company of his EvenSté unbelief. of degree a such acknowledged ever have Fewbeliefs...

...; desecration led to revelation—a revelation that lasted. As the provost Eberhard Waltmann of Magdeburg wrote to John of Capistrano in 1452 (in a debate over the miraclehost at Wilsnack), matter changes to blood to reveal God’s anger, to express disgust at sin and unbelief.50 In the course...

...- An Essay on Religious Unbelief and Political Activism in Mod- mitments, while his more religious “Refutation” must have ern Islam (London: Frank Cass, 1966); Albert Hourani, been aimed at Muslims in general. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age: 1798–1939 (Cambridge...