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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... claimed to have grown up in a village whose residents often discussed the complexities of " free will , fixed fate , foreknowl- edge absolute , trinity , redemption , special grace , eternity . " Harriet Beecher Stowe created in her ...
... claimed to have grown up in a village whose residents often discussed the complexities of " free will , fixed fate , foreknowl- edge absolute , trinity , redemption , special grace , eternity . " Harriet Beecher Stowe created in her ...
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... claimed that God attested to truth by signs, wonders, and miracles (Heb. 2:4), and by the second century, Christian apologists regularly appealed to the miracles of Jesus and his fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies to prove that he ...
... claimed that God attested to truth by signs, wonders, and miracles (Heb. 2:4), and by the second century, Christian apologists regularly appealed to the miracles of Jesus and his fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies to prove that he ...
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... claimed that Calvinism was , in the most negative sense of the word , speculative ; Calvinists insisted it was eminently practical . It would be more precise to refer to the " Reformed " rather than merely to the " Calvinist " tradition ...
... claimed that Calvinism was , in the most negative sense of the word , speculative ; Calvinists insisted it was eminently practical . It would be more precise to refer to the " Reformed " rather than merely to the " Calvinist " tradition ...
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... claimed them as founding figures . And yet even they often have to speak in opposition to the continuing power of Reformed theology in the religious culture . By the early nineteenth century , Reformed theologians defended their views ...
... claimed them as founding figures . And yet even they often have to speak in opposition to the continuing power of Reformed theology in the religious culture . By the early nineteenth century , Reformed theologians defended their views ...
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... better served without it than with it . " Lindsley was contending with critics who claimed that seminaries were " better calculated to make mere scholars and fine gentlemen than hardy soldiers of the cross . 16 Introduction.
... better served without it than with it . " Lindsley was contending with critics who claimed that seminaries were " better calculated to make mere scholars and fine gentlemen than hardy soldiers of the cross . 16 Introduction.
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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