In Hamlet, Shakespeare saw that the problem of unbelief was unleashed by the challenge to church authority that had arisen in Wittenberg. But the Enlightenment thinkers who came after him—and those thinkers today who feel the Enlightenment was true to its name—assure us that the problem is no problem at all. We don’t need God, they say, not the God of churches and blind faith, anyway. Reason—science—will find the truth, they tell us. Politics will turn that truth into policy. Man alone will make the earth a heaven, or close enough for jazz. But the Romantics knew better. They were living in
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