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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... grace to transform the sinful heart , the value of divine law as a guide to the Christian life , the insistence that saving truth came through scripture alone , and the necessity that the church order its ministry and structure in close ...
... grace to transform the sinful heart , the value of divine law as a guide to the Christian life , the insistence that saving truth came through scripture alone , and the necessity that the church order its ministry and structure in close ...
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... grace . Natural truth , as Norton put it , might be found in the creature , moral truth in the law of nature , and legal truth in the law written in the conscience , but the evangelical truth of God's merciful grace in Christ was ...
... grace . Natural truth , as Norton put it , might be found in the creature , moral truth in the law of nature , and legal truth in the law written in the conscience , but the evangelical truth of God's merciful grace in Christ was ...
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... grace sufficient for faith was given to all . He believed that faith was the fruit of grace and that the will had no power to believe unless empowered by grace , but the sinful will could resist , and the sinner bore the responsibility ...
... grace sufficient for faith was given to all . He believed that faith was the fruit of grace and that the will had no power to believe unless empowered by grace , but the sinful will could resist , and the sinner bore the responsibility ...
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... grace came entirely as a gift . Calvinist theologians were intent , however , on showing that predestination did not negate human volition and clerical exhortation to the unsaved . They turned , therefore , as a further implication of ...
... grace came entirely as a gift . Calvinist theologians were intent , however , on showing that predestination did not negate human volition and clerical exhortation to the unsaved . They turned , therefore , as a further implication of ...
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... grace the will inevitably chose evil . The determinism of sovereign grace also imposed no external necessity on the will ; it rather inclined the will , Norton said , " according to the nature and liberty of it " : God determineth the ...
... grace the will inevitably chose evil . The determinism of sovereign grace also imposed no external necessity on the will ; it rather inclined the will , Norton said , " according to the nature and liberty of it " : God determineth the ...
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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