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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... insist that theology preoccupied ordinary Americans, or to suggest that theological texts unlock the meaning of American religious experience. I try simply to show that Christian theology in America was part of a community of dis ...
... insist that theology preoccupied ordinary Americans, or to suggest that theological texts unlock the meaning of American religious experience. I try simply to show that Christian theology in America was part of a community of dis ...
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... insisted that it was derived from " divine revelation " rather than human inquiry , but he explained that any ... insistence on theology's " practicality ” and its ethical functions , the importance of Calvinism , the inter- play ...
... insisted that it was derived from " divine revelation " rather than human inquiry , but he explained that any ... insistence on theology's " practicality ” and its ethical functions , the importance of Calvinism , the inter- play ...
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... insisted it was eminently practical . It would be more precise to refer to the " Reformed " rather than merely to the " Calvinist " tradition , for the French Protestant reformer of sixteenth- century Geneva , John Calvin , was only one ...
... insisted it was eminently practical . It would be more precise to refer to the " Reformed " rather than merely to the " Calvinist " tradition , for the French Protestant reformer of sixteenth- century Geneva , John Calvin , was only one ...
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... insisted that human beings had sufficient freedom to make them responsible for their actions , though theologians con- tinually redefined the meaning of freedom . In the early seventeenth century , American Calvinist preachers defined ...
... insisted that human beings had sufficient freedom to make them responsible for their actions , though theologians con- tinually redefined the meaning of freedom . In the early seventeenth century , American Calvinist preachers defined ...
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... insisted that the gospel of the New Testament had been intended not for “ learned doctors " but for the " common ... insisting that the “ right of private judgment ” made everyone a theologian . They promoted a theology of the ...
... insisted that the gospel of the New Testament had been intended not for “ learned doctors " but for the " common ... insisting that the “ right of private judgment ” made everyone a theologian . They promoted a theology of 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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