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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... movement , its appearance in this book recalls a usage current as early as the eighth century , when Alcuin , adviser of Charlemagne and abbot of Tours , cautioned against the proverb that the “ vox populi ” was the " vox Dei . " The ...
... movement , its appearance in this book recalls a usage current as early as the eighth century , when Alcuin , adviser of Charlemagne and abbot of Tours , cautioned against the proverb that the “ vox populi ” was the " vox Dei . " The ...
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... movement , however , its proponents had to contend with an opposition con- vinced that the preacher called and taught by God needed " no human instruc- tion . " Even some educated and socially prominent pastors , like the powerful New ...
... movement , however , its proponents had to contend with an opposition con- vinced that the preacher called and taught by God needed " no human instruc- tion . " Even some educated and socially prominent pastors , like the powerful New ...
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... movements . John Murray and Hosea Ballou led a " Universalist " movement directed against Calvinist theology . Shar- ing some of the same complaints as the more literate Unitarians , they espoused a form of theological liberalism that ...
... movements . John Murray and Hosea Ballou led a " Universalist " movement directed against Calvinist theology . Shar- ing some of the same complaints as the more literate Unitarians , they espoused a form of theological liberalism that ...
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... movement employed a similar populist rhetoric , boasting that Methodists offered a theology for the common people . They had broken away from the Church of England in 1784 , and on most questions they agreed doctrinally with the ...
... movement employed a similar populist rhetoric , boasting that Methodists offered a theology for the common people . They had broken away from the Church of England in 1784 , and on most questions they agreed doctrinally with the ...
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... movement away from their Anglican heritage . The subsequent chapters on Baptists , Christians , African - Americans , Quakers , Shakers , and Mormons continue to explore groups that defined themselves in part with populist rhetoric ...
... movement away from their Anglican heritage . The subsequent chapters on Baptists , Christians , African - Americans , Quakers , Shakers , and Mormons continue to explore groups that defined themselves in part with populist rhetoric ...
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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