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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... congregations as well as writing treatises for the learned . When an African - American servant named Jarena Lee wrote her Religious Experience and Journal in 1849 , she described her religious experience — using words like " guilt ...
... congregations as well as writing treatises for the learned . When an African - American servant named Jarena Lee wrote her Religious Experience and Journal in 1849 , she described her religious experience — using words like " guilt ...
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... congregation- as an important secondary institutional location for theology . Theologians thought of themselves as ad- dressing the topics important for local congregations , and most early Ameri- can theologians spent most of their ...
... congregation- as an important secondary institutional location for theology . Theologians thought of themselves as ad- dressing the topics important for local congregations , and most early Ameri- can theologians spent most of their ...
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... congregation in New Town ( Cam- bridge ) , would never have ranked himself as the intellectual equal of either Cotton or Hooker . Despite his Cambridge degree , he bemoaned his weakness of presence and utterance , and he struck ...
... congregation in New Town ( Cam- bridge ) , would never have ranked himself as the intellectual equal of either Cotton or Hooker . Despite his Cambridge degree , he bemoaned his weakness of presence and utterance , and he struck ...
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... congregations to know was that the glory of the Father consisted in creation and election , the glory of the Son in redemption , and the glory of the Spirit in " the great work of application . ” The drama of salvation began when the ...
... congregations to know was that the glory of the Father consisted in creation and election , the glory of the Son in redemption , and the glory of the Spirit in " the great work of application . ” The drama of salvation began when the ...
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... congregation that all spiritual gifts sprang immediately from union with the Person of Christ and the Holy Spirit ; that the exercise of those gifts was really the activity of the Spirit , who " Acteth the gifts given to us ” ; and that ...
... congregation that all spiritual gifts sprang immediately from union with the Person of Christ and the Holy Spirit ; that the exercise of those gifts was really the activity of the Spirit , who " Acteth the gifts given to us ” ; and that ...
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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