A corrective to the much-discussed Victorian 'crisis of faith', this study focuses upon several prominent individuals who experienced a `crisis of doubt' and made the reverse journey, abandoning secularism to defend Christianity. Their stories demonstrate the intellectual strength of faith in the nineteenth century.

Timothy Larsen, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, and had been elected a Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.

• 1: Crisis of Faith


• 2: William Hone


• 3: Frederic Rowland Young


• 4: Thomas Cooper


• 5: John Henry Gordon


• 6: Joseph Barker


• 7: John Bagnall Bebbington


• 8: George Sexton


• 9: How Many Reconverts Were There?


• 10: Crisis of Doubt