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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... covenant theologians of seventeenth - century Europe and America would emphasize its function as a guide to living unto God . American theologians drew , moreover , on another tradition extending back into the third century , in which ...
... covenant theologians of seventeenth - century Europe and America would emphasize its function as a guide to living unto God . American theologians drew , moreover , on another tradition extending back into the third century , in which ...
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... Covenant ( 1646 ) — came from his immersion in the controversy , but it had staying power in New England theology because apart from Cotton's publica- tions it was the most detailed treatise on covenant doctrine to be written in the ...
... Covenant ( 1646 ) — came from his immersion in the controversy , but it had staying power in New England theology because apart from Cotton's publica- tions it was the most detailed treatise on covenant doctrine to be written in the ...
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... covenant of redemption.35 They explained redemption , as well , through recourse to the standard for- mulas of Calvinist orthodoxy . The Son became incarnate in the God - man , Jesus Christ , whose dual nature as human and divine made ...
... covenant of redemption.35 They explained redemption , as well , through recourse to the standard for- mulas of Calvinist orthodoxy . The Son became incarnate in the God - man , Jesus Christ , whose dual nature as human and divine made ...
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... Covenant To maintain the paradoxes implicit in the idea of accommodation , the preachers drew on the doctrine of the covenant . From God's " special way of governing rational creatures , " wrote William Ames in his Marrow of Sacred ...
... Covenant To maintain the paradoxes implicit in the idea of accommodation , the preachers drew on the doctrine of the covenant . From God's " special way of governing rational creatures , " wrote William Ames in his Marrow of Sacred ...
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... covenant of works with Adam , he explained , God promised eternal happiness on the condition of perfect obe- dience . Adam's fall broke that covenant , though without annulling its de- mands . These demands , evident both in the natural ...
... covenant of works with Adam , he explained , God promised eternal happiness on the condition of perfect obe- dience . Adam's fall broke that covenant , though without annulling its de- mands . These demands , evident both in the natural ...
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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