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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... minister Robert Baird interpreted American religion for European readers in 1843 , he could boast of " a vast number of publications in every department of Chris- tian theology , ” and he might have added that American theological ...
... minister Robert Baird interpreted American religion for European readers in 1843 , he could boast of " a vast number of publications in every department of Chris- tian theology , ” and he might have added that American theological ...
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... ministers and laypeople often lacked the time to read , that publishers respected only market demand , and that ... minister Horace Bushnell claimed to have grown up in a village whose residents often discussed the complexities of ...
... ministers and laypeople often lacked the time to read , that publishers respected only market demand , and that ... minister Horace Bushnell claimed to have grown up in a village whose residents often discussed the complexities of ...
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... ministers and priests . Twenty - three percent of the authors who published their books before 1789 spent some time teaching in colleges , but 90 percent of the authors for that period served in parishes . For the next seventy - five ...
... ministers and priests . Twenty - three percent of the authors who published their books before 1789 spent some time teaching in colleges , but 90 percent of the authors for that period served in parishes . For the next seventy - five ...
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... ministers and priests – soon rivaled the parish as a center of theological production . Between 1784 and 1859 , the Protestant churches founded at least thirty - nine seminaries and the Catholics founded even more . Schaff reported in ...
... ministers and priests – soon rivaled the parish as a center of theological production . Between 1784 and 1859 , the Protestant churches founded at least thirty - nine seminaries and the Catholics founded even more . Schaff reported in ...
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... minister to the 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 ...
... minister to the 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 ...
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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