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My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith

Robert Clark

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My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith

Robert Clark traces the spiritual quests and struggles of his ancestors, from England's split with the Church of Rome at the end of the middle ages to his own return to the faith five hundred years later. Clark reconstructs their lives as medieval Catholics, heretics, and inquisitors in the England of Henry VII; as Puritan settlers, participants in Indian wars, and accusers in witch trials in New England in the 1600s; as preachers, artists, writers, and agnostics during the theological and intellectual upheavals of the 19th century that left them exploring creeds ranging from evangelical Protestantism to Unitarianism to Buddhism to atheism. In the context of King Henry's divorces and his quarrel with both the Pope and Martin Luther; the fiery preaching of Jonathan Edwards and Cotton Mather; the religious and personal struggles of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Margaret Fuller, Clark weaves a rich history that culminates in his own quest through doubt toward faith.

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Publisher
Picador
Year
1999
ISBN-13
9780312209322
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Religious faith and doubtFamily genealogyHistory of Christianity in England and America

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