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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... Calvinist theology . An understanding of theology as fully practical , however , also attracted such Calvinist scholastics as Bartholomaus Kecker- mann in Heidelberg , who contended that everything in theology was directed toward the ...
... Calvinist theology . An understanding of theology as fully practical , however , also attracted such Calvinist scholastics as Bartholomaus Kecker- mann in Heidelberg , who contended that everything in theology was directed toward the ...
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... Calvinist traditions . In a history of Ameri- can theology , the Calvinists loom large . By the mid - nineteenth century , the two largest Calvinist denominations in colonial America , the Congregationalists and the Presbyterians ...
... Calvinist traditions . In a history of Ameri- can theology , the Calvinists loom large . By the mid - nineteenth century , the two largest Calvinist denominations in colonial America , the Congregationalists and the Presbyterians ...
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... Calvinists insisted it was eminently practical . It would be more precise to refer to the " Reformed " rather than merely to the " Calvinist " tradition , for the French Protestant reformer of sixteenth- century Geneva , John Calvin ...
... Calvinists insisted it was eminently practical . It would be more precise to refer to the " Reformed " rather than merely to the " Calvinist " tradition , for the French Protestant reformer of sixteenth- century Geneva , John Calvin ...
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... Calvinist preachers defined human beings as " causes by counsel , " meaning that the human will and intellect always participated in any decision , whatever its ultimate cause might be . By the eighteenth century , Jonathan Edwards drew ...
... Calvinist preachers defined human beings as " causes by counsel , " meaning that the human will and intellect always participated in any decision , whatever its ultimate cause might be . By the eighteenth century , Jonathan Edwards drew ...
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Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War E. Brooks Holifield. Calvinist Origins PART I The New England Calvinists 2 Theology as an enterprise of Part 1. Calvinist Origins.
Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War E. Brooks Holifield. Calvinist Origins PART I The New England Calvinists 2 Theology as an enterprise of Part 1. Calvinist Origins.
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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