Robert G. Ingersoll

Some Mistakes of Moses (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the nineteenth century's leading spokesmen for freethinking and agnosticism, Ingersoll attempts nothing less than a deconstruction of the Old Testament in this volume. The stories of the Tower of Babel, Noah and the flood, the plagues of Egypt, and the forty years of wandering in the desert . . . all are greeted with skepticism, to say the least.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411460447
• Artikelnr.: 50390538

Autorenporträt

Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll ( August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899) was an American writer and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic". Robert Ingersoll was born in Dresden, Yates County, New York. His father, John Ingersoll, was an abolitionist-sympathizing Congregationalist preacher, whose radical opinions caused him and his family to relocate frequently. For a time, Rev. John Ingersoll substituted as preacher for American revivalist Charles G. Finney while Finney was on a tour of Europe. Upon Finney's return, Rev. Ingersoll remained for a few months as co-pastor/associate pastor with Finney. The elder Ingersoll's later pastoral experiences influenced young Robert negatively, however, as The Elmira Telegram described in 1890:[1] Though for many years the most noted of American infidels, Colonel Ingersoll was born and reared in a devoutly Christian household. His father, John Ingersoll, was a Congregationalist minister and a man of mark in his time, a deep thinker, a logical and eloquent speaker, broad minded and generously tolerant of the views of others. The popular impression which credits Ingersoll's infidelity in the main to his father's severe orthodoxy and the austere and gloomy surroundings in which his boyhood was spent is wholly wrong. On the contrary, the elder Ingersoll's liberal views were a source of constant trouble between him and his parishioners