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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... natural philosophy , and during the eighteenth century , their successors adopted an understanding of reason in ... theology different in important ways from either the scholastic thought of the medieval church or the theologies of ...
... natural philosophy , and during the eighteenth century , their successors adopted an understanding of reason in ... theology different in important ways from either the scholastic thought of the medieval church or the theologies of ...
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... natural theology, this evidential tradition also extended back into Christian antiquity. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament claimed that God attested to truth by signs, wonders, and miracles (Heb. 2:4), and by the second ...
... natural theology, this evidential tradition also extended back into Christian antiquity. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament claimed that God attested to truth by signs, wonders, and miracles (Heb. 2:4), and by the second ...
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... theology . In establishing the place of natural theology and the evidences , American theologians in the antebellum era found theoretical support especially in the eighteenth - century Scottish philosophical theories collectively ...
... theology . In establishing the place of natural theology and the evidences , American theologians in the antebellum era found theoretical support especially in the eighteenth - century Scottish philosophical theories collectively ...
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... theology for the common people . They had broken away from the Church of England in 1784 , and on most questions ... natural theology , and the commonsense philosophy that guided much of the academic quest for reasonableness . The ...
... theology for the common people . They had broken away from the Church of England in 1784 , and on most questions ... natural theology , and the commonsense philosophy that guided much of the academic quest for reasonableness . The ...
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... natural theology that had its roots in Platonic philosophy . The Ramists often taught that Art was a term for the wisdom of God ; it there- fore constituted the law by which God created the world . Through the act of creation , the ...
... natural theology that had its roots in Platonic philosophy . The Ramists often taught that Art was a term for the wisdom of God ; it there- fore constituted the law by which God created the world . Through the act of creation , 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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