Doubting Thomas
- ISBN-10
- 1908251875
- ISBN-13
- 9781908251879
- Category
- Blasphemy
- Pages
- 310
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Author
- Heather Richardson
Description
A story of sex, drugs and blasphemy in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh experienced through four viewpoints over fifteen years: Dr Robert Carruth, his wife Isobel, and university students Mungo Craig and Thomas Aikenhead. After participating in the particularly gruesome autopsy of a pregnant prisoner, Robert is unable to consummate his marriage to Isobel. He buries himself in work, and his overzealousness contributes to the demise of a down-at-heel apothecary named James Aikenhead. Fifteen years pass and the apothecary's son, Thomas, appears at the Carruths' door seeking recompense for his father's death. At his side is Mungo Craig, a cunning poet with dubious loyalties. The two insinuate their way into Robert and Isobel's life, freshly exposing old fault lines in the Carruths' marriage and subjecting them to dangerous new pressure.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Religionsbeschimpfung: der rechtliche Schutz des Heiligen
By Arnold Angenendt, Michael Pawlik, Andreas von Arnauld de la PerrièreDer säkulare Staat tut sich schwer, mit rechtsstaatlichen Mitteln religiöse Gefühle zu schützen. Die noch immer geltende Strafdrohung für Religionsbeschimpfung greift praktisch ins Leere.
-
Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
By Alain CabantousFirst published in Paris in 1998.
-
Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
By Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Talal AsadFour leading thinkers confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values.
-
Schutz religiöser Gefühle im freiheitlichen Verfassungsstaat?
By Barbara RoxEine auf die Glaubensfreiheit des Art . 4 Abs . 1 , 2 GG gestützte grundrechtliche Schutzpflicht kommt in Fällen der Gotteslästerung und Religionsbeschimpfung nicht in Betracht , weil es bereits an der Betroffenheit eines von diesem ...
-
Blasphemie - lächerlicher Glaube?: Ein wiederkehrendes Phänomen im Diskurs
By Konstantin Lindner, Thomas LaubachDie Phänomene der Religionsbeschimpfung lassen sich also nicht über einen grundrechtlichen Leisten schlagen. Verschiedene Grundrechte können relevant werden, übrigens auch die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre.
-
Blasphemy: A Very Short Introduction
By Yvonne SherwoodDiscussing some of the most famous cases of blasphemy, this book considers the steady presence of blasphemy in our world today, even as society grows increasingly secular.
-
The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law
By P. B. Cliteur, Tom Herrenberg9 Blasphemy, Multiculturalism and Free Speech in Modern Britain -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index
-
The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law
By Paul Bernard CliteurThis collection centers around two trends that currently influence freedom of expression.