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The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic
Henry Rogers · 2025
70/100
👍 Worth It
Rogers uses the fictional visit to his skeptical nephew as a surprisingly durable device for laying out Victorian Christian apologetics, and the structured dialogue keeps arguments accessible in a way that straight treatise prose rarely manages. The prose is genuinely dated and the German rationalism it targets is a niche concern today, but as a historical landmark of Protestant apologetic thought — freely available via Project Gutenberg — it earns its place for the right reader.
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