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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... Christ in the New . ” Noah , for example , who saved his household in the ark , typified Christ , who saved his people through the church ; and the Jewish exodus from Egypt prefigured the Christian deliv- erance from bondage to sin and ...
... Christ in the New . ” Noah , for example , who saved his household in the ark , typified Christ , who saved his people through the church ; and the Jewish exodus from Egypt prefigured the Christian deliv- erance from bondage to sin and ...
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... Christ . But God had determined , Norton observed , to work with finite creatures " not according to his absolute ... Christ , 32 The first - generation ministers spoke of Christ with the standard concepts of Reformed Christology ...
... Christ . But God had determined , Norton observed , to work with finite creatures " not according to his absolute ... Christ , 32 The first - generation ministers spoke of Christ with the standard concepts of Reformed Christology ...
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... Christ was both a human being and the increated God , his obedience counted as a human satisfaction of an infinite debt beyond the capacity of any other human being to pay . 36 This incarnation in Christ therefore represented a divine ...
... Christ was both a human being and the increated God , his obedience counted as a human satisfaction of an infinite debt beyond the capacity of any other human being to pay . 36 This incarnation in Christ therefore represented a divine ...
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... Christ ( a participation in the spiritual good of Christ ) , adoption ( by which Christ gave the believer his Spirit ) , sanctification ( the gracious creation of holy dispositions and inclina- tions that restored the image of God ) ...
... Christ ( a participation in the spiritual good of Christ ) , adoption ( by which Christ gave the believer his Spirit ) , sanctification ( the gracious creation of holy dispositions and inclina- tions that restored the image of God ) ...
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... Christ , by the love of Christ . " Such smooth and comforting sermons were worthless ; the heart had to be wounded unto death.54 Thomas Shepard therefore tried , one of his hearers recalled , “ to pound our hearts all to pieces . " This ...
... Christ , by the love of Christ . " Such smooth and comforting sermons were worthless ; the heart had to be wounded unto death.54 Thomas Shepard therefore tried , one of his hearers recalled , “ to pound our hearts all to pieces . " This ...
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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