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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... Quaker thought and eighteenth - century Anglicanism provided alternatives , the Re- formed theologians ... Quakers , and Mormons repre- sented the variety of theological traditions that , with the increasing of Ameri- can ...
... Quaker thought and eighteenth - century Anglicanism provided alternatives , the Re- formed theologians ... Quakers , and Mormons repre- sented the variety of theological traditions that , with the increasing of Ameri- can ...
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... Quaker movement was its assertion of the authority of the unlearned . The Quaker founders George Fox and James ... Quakers felt confident that their lack of academic theological training was an aid to the discovery of truth , not a ...
... Quaker movement was its assertion of the authority of the unlearned . The Quaker founders George Fox and James ... Quakers felt confident that their lack of academic theological training was an aid to the discovery of truth , not a ...
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... Quaker , and Mormon communities that stretched the boundaries of tradi- tional Christian understandings . Rather than reject theology , however , the populist movements promoted it , sometimes insisting that they alone had discovered ...
... Quaker , and Mormon communities that stretched the boundaries of tradi- tional Christian understandings . Rather than reject theology , however , the populist movements promoted it , sometimes insisting that they alone had discovered ...
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... Quakers , Shakers , and Mormons continue to explore groups that defined themselves in part with populist rhetoric , even though the Baptists and Christians , like the Methodists , produced early leaders who pushed toward theological ...
... Quakers , Shakers , and Mormons continue to explore groups that defined themselves in part with populist rhetoric , even though the Baptists and Christians , like the Methodists , produced early leaders who pushed toward theological ...
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... Quakers , but he also had a knack for theological precision that made him a valuable ally during the debates of the 1630s , when he stood with the majority against John Cotton . He admired Cotton , however , and later defended him by ...
... Quakers , but he also had a knack for theological precision that made him a valuable ally during the debates of the 1630s , when he stood with the majority against John Cotton . He admired Cotton , however , and later defended him by ...
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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