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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... Millennial Harbinger ( 1830 ) , the Methodist Quarterly Review ( 1840 ) , the Universalist Quarterly and General Review ( 1844 ) , and the Quarterly Review of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church , South ( 1846 ) would eventually become ...
... Millennial Harbinger ( 1830 ) , the Methodist Quarterly Review ( 1840 ) , the Universalist Quarterly and General Review ( 1844 ) , and the Quarterly Review of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church , South ( 1846 ) would eventually become ...
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... millennial forms . Before 1640 all Reformed theologians expected a return of Christ at the time of the last judgment , but most ignored or disparaged millennial theories , which predicted an extended earthly reign of Christ and the ...
... millennial forms . Before 1640 all Reformed theologians expected a return of Christ at the time of the last judgment , but most ignored or disparaged millennial theories , which predicted an extended earthly reign of Christ and the ...
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... millennial speculation . The Cambridge scholar Joseph Mede ( 1586–1638 ) and the German theologian John Henry Alsted also predicted in 1627 an imminent millennial reign . Mede thought that it would follow the second coming and last ...
... millennial speculation . The Cambridge scholar Joseph Mede ( 1586–1638 ) and the German theologian John Henry Alsted also predicted in 1627 an imminent millennial reign . Mede thought that it would follow the second coming and last ...
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... millennial kingdom.7 78 The potential for conflict about the millennium became clear after Roger Williams ( 1603-83 ) arrived in Boston in 1631 as a separatist minister quest- ing for purity . Because the congregation in Boston “ would ...
... millennial kingdom.7 78 The potential for conflict about the millennium became clear after Roger Williams ( 1603-83 ) arrived in Boston in 1631 as a separatist minister quest- ing for purity . Because the congregation in Boston “ would ...
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... Cotton and Shepard thought that millennial prophecies encouraged ministers and magistrates to work together to stamp out irreli- gion ; Williams thought that governmental coercion in religion contradicted 52 Calvinist Origins.
... Cotton and Shepard thought that millennial prophecies encouraged ministers and magistrates to work together to stamp out irreli- gion ; Williams thought that governmental coercion in religion contradicted 52 Calvinist Origins.
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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