Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War

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Yale University Press, 2003 M01 1 - 617 pages
Since its first publication in 1859, few works of political philosophy have provoked such continuous controversy as John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, a passionate argument on behalf of freedom of self-expression. This classic work is now available in this volume which also includes essays by scholars in a range of fields. The text begins with a biographical essay by David Bromwich and an interpretative essay by George Kateb. Then Jean Bethke Elshtain, Owen Fiss, Judge Richard A. Posner and Jeremy Waldron present commentaries on the pertinence of Mill's thinking to early 21st century debates. They discuss, for example, the uses of authority and tradition, the shifting legal boundaries of free speech and free action, the relation of personal liberty to market individualism, and the tension between the right to live as one pleases and the right to criticize anyone's way of life.

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Theology in America
1
Part 1 Calvinist Origins
23
Part 2 The Baconian Style
157
Part 3 Alternatives to Baconian Reason
395
26 Afterword
505
Notes
513
Index
597
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