Introduction: Desecularizing doubt
The prophets armed: Luther and the making and breaking of conscience
"To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine. It is to kill a man": the wars of religion and the virtues of doubt
The metaphysics of mercy: Calvin and Spinoza
In search of a father: Voltaire's Christian Enlightenment
"A damnable doctrine": Darwin and the soul of Victorian doubt
The God that failed: Feuerbach, Marx, and the politics of salvation
Conclusion: In Augustine's shadow.
