Broadcast on December 11, 2003
Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She defines doubt generously, broadly addressing the human impulse to question what is given in order to find meaning and understanding. Hecht counts Socrates and Jesus, Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson among humanity's great doubters. 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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