Jennifer Michael Hecht: A History of Doubt

A History of Doubt
with Jennifer Michael Hecht
Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett



Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world's great religious and secular belief systems. She suggests that only in modern time has doubt been narrowly equated with a complete rejection of faith, or a broader sense of mystery.

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