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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... became entangled with the medieval " plowman " tradition - praise of the religious insight of the simple uneducated plowman . The two themes helped form the theological landscape in America.1 Even more prominent in this account ...
... became entangled with the medieval " plowman " tradition - praise of the religious insight of the simple uneducated plowman . The two themes helped form the theological landscape in America.1 Even more prominent in this account ...
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... became by the thirteenth century an argument for the authenticity of the Christian revelation in general and the Christian scriptures in particular. The argument became increasingly elaborate, and by the fourteenth century, theologians ...
... became by the thirteenth century an argument for the authenticity of the Christian revelation in general and the Christian scriptures in particular. The argument became increasingly elaborate, and by the fourteenth century, theologians ...
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... 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 Heidelberg ...
... 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 Heidelberg ...
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... became increasingly promi- nent . By the eighteenth century , some redefined the practicality of theology to mean simply its usefulness as a guide to a life of virtue , and even those who retained older notions of the practical became ...
... became increasingly promi- nent . By the eighteenth century , some redefined the practicality of theology to mean simply its usefulness as a guide to a life of virtue , and even those who retained older notions of the practical became ...
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... became more professional , it became more specialized . An- dover set the pattern for Protestants by adopting the fourfold curriculum of biblical , historical , systematic , and pastoral studies , and Park in 1844 called for more ...
... became more professional , it became more specialized . An- dover set the pattern for Protestants by adopting the fourfold curriculum of biblical , historical , systematic , and pastoral studies , and Park in 1844 called for more ...
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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