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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... moral philosophy . By the mid - nineteenth century , it was common among theologians to include a section on moral philosophy within theology textbooks . The emphasis on practicality merged almost seamlessly with the prevailing ...
... moral philosophy . By the mid - nineteenth century , it was common among theologians to include a section on moral philosophy within theology textbooks . The emphasis on practicality merged almost seamlessly with the prevailing ...
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... moral laws of scripture , still required obedience , but it could no longer earn salvation . In the covenant of grace made with Abraham , how- ever , the promise of eternal happiness rested on the condition of faith alone.4 At one level ...
... moral laws of scripture , still required obedience , but it could no longer earn salvation . In the covenant of grace made with Abraham , how- ever , the promise of eternal happiness rested on the condition of faith alone.4 At one level ...
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... moral obedience to God , appeared especially in the writings of the Anglican theologians who subscribed to the theology of “ holy living ” popularized by the Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland , Jeremy Taylor ( 1613–67 ) . Con- vinced ...
... moral obedience to God , appeared especially in the writings of the Anglican theologians who subscribed to the theology of “ holy living ” popularized by the Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland , Jeremy Taylor ( 1613–67 ) . Con- vinced ...
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... moral law had any bearing on salvation . The evangelistic campaign of the Independent preacher Richard Davis that began in North- amptonshire in 1690 drew on the contributions of enthusiastic but unedu- cated shoemakers , weavers , and ...
... moral law had any bearing on salvation . The evangelistic campaign of the Independent preacher Richard Davis that began in North- amptonshire in 1690 drew on the contributions of enthusiastic but unedu- cated shoemakers , weavers , and ...
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... moral law, and the passive, by which his vicarious suffer- ing satisfied God's wrath. The application of redemption ... moral obedience in the world. The teaching on observance and obedience continued the typical Re- formed ...
... moral law, and the passive, by which his vicarious suffer- ing satisfied God's wrath. The application of redemption ... moral obedience in the world. The teaching on observance and obedience continued the typical Re- formed ...
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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