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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... old way , " by which they meant the biblical way.13 They believed , therefore , that all theological doctrines had to flow from scriptural exegesis , and they accepted the customary Calvinist tenet that scrip- ture interpreted itself ...
... old way , " by which they meant the biblical way.13 They believed , therefore , that all theological doctrines had to flow from scriptural exegesis , and they accepted the customary Calvinist tenet that scrip- ture interpreted itself ...
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... old thoughts , both sides departed from Calvin . But in spirit , Cotton departed the farthest , for he cast aside the fragile equilibrium that both Calvin and most of his Reformed suc- cessors , committed to the idea of God's ...
... old thoughts , both sides departed from Calvin . But in spirit , Cotton departed the farthest , for he cast aside the fragile equilibrium that both Calvin and most of his Reformed suc- cessors , committed to the idea of God's ...
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... Calvinists reacted against Arminian tendencies , a reaction that led after 1690 to alarming disputes over the old questions of the civil war era : whether faith could be described as a condition of the covenant of grace and whether ...
... Calvinists reacted against Arminian tendencies , a reaction that led after 1690 to alarming disputes over the old questions of the civil war era : whether faith could be described as a condition of the covenant of grace and whether ...
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... Calvinist theology . Wil- lard was the teacher of the Old South Church in Boston from 1676 to 1707 , and for the final six years of his career the acting president of Harvard . He produced more than fifty published works and attained a ...
... Calvinist theology . Wil- lard was the teacher of the Old South Church in Boston from 1676 to 1707 , and for the final six years of his career the acting president of Harvard . He produced more than fifty published works and attained a ...
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... Calvinists honored the virtuous life , but some sought ways to link the virtuous life more closely to salvation ... old zeal had yielded to a “ Catholick Spirit , as ' tis called . " Across town , Benjamin Colman , the pastor of ...
... Calvinists honored the virtuous life , but some sought ways to link the virtuous life more closely to salvation ... old zeal had yielded to a “ Catholick Spirit , as ' tis called . " Across town , Benjamin Colman , the pastor of ...
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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