Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil WarYale 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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... Calvinism Revised 341 18 " True Calvinism " Defended 370 20 21 22 Part 3. Alternatives to Baconian Reason Lutherans : Reason , Revival , and Confession 397 Catholics : Reason and the Church 415 The Transcendentalists : Intuition 434 ...
... Calvinism Revised 341 18 " True Calvinism " Defended 370 20 21 22 Part 3. Alternatives to Baconian Reason Lutherans : Reason , Revival , and Confession 397 Catholics : Reason and the Church 415 The Transcendentalists : Intuition 434 ...
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... Calvinism , and the distinction between populist and academic theologians , I go in different directions from those Ahlstrom traveled . In his brief survey , Ahlstrom declined quite appropriately to explore what he called a “ folk ...
... Calvinism , and the distinction between populist and academic theologians , I go in different directions from those Ahlstrom traveled . In his brief survey , Ahlstrom declined quite appropriately to explore what he called a “ folk ...
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... Calvinism became an inspiration for various later “ Arminian ” rejec- tions of Calvinist theology . An understanding of theology as fully practical , however , also attracted such Calvinist scholastics as Bartholomaus Kecker- mann in ...
... Calvinism became an inspiration for various later “ Arminian ” rejec- tions of Calvinist theology . An understanding of theology as fully practical , however , also attracted such Calvinist scholastics as Bartholomaus Kecker- mann in ...
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... Calvinism A substantial part of the history of theology in early America was an extended debate , stretching over more than two centuries , about the meaning and the truth of Calvinism . Historians of American religion have departed ...
... Calvinism A substantial part of the history of theology in early America was an extended debate , stretching over more than two centuries , about the meaning and the truth of Calvinism . Historians of American religion have departed ...
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... Calvinism , its opponents altered the tone and emphasis of their own theological traditions . In their efforts at defense , Calvinists altered the meaning and force of Calvinism . Op- ponents claimed that Calvinism was , in the most ...
... Calvinism , its opponents altered the tone and emphasis of their own theological traditions . In their efforts at defense , Calvinists altered the meaning and force of Calvinism . Op- ponents claimed that Calvinism was , in the most ...
Contents
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Part 2 The Baconian Style | 157 |
Part 3 Alternatives to Baconian Reason | 395 |
26 Afterword | 505 |
Notes | 513 |
Index | 597 |
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