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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... principles of interpretation . Their second approach was to employ the " exemplary " reading of the Bible , the interpretation of scrip- tural examples as " patterns for imitation . " They The New England Calvinists 29.
... principles of interpretation . Their second approach was to employ the " exemplary " reading of the Bible , the interpretation of scrip- tural examples as " patterns for imitation . " They The New England Calvinists 29.
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... principle of causation or as particular as an observation about the visible world — but to “ invent ” an argument was simply to discover it , whether through observation and experience or by accepting the testimony of others.2 It was ...
... principle of causation or as particular as an observation about the visible world — but to “ invent ” an argument was simply to discover it , whether through observation and experience or by accepting the testimony of others.2 It was ...
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... principle of grace , the soul could move through trust into unity with Christ . Like most of the other ministers , Bulkeley assumed distinctions among a habit of faith infused into the soul by the Spirit , an act of faith that realized ...
... principle of grace , the soul could move through trust into unity with Christ . Like most of the other ministers , Bulkeley assumed distinctions among a habit of faith infused into the soul by the Spirit , an act of faith that realized ...
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... principle of regenerate membership , which reserved the Lord's Supper for the converted . Critics of the decision would later charge the synod with having created a " Half - Way Covenant . " 91 In the ensuing debates , three issues ...
... principle of regenerate membership , which reserved the Lord's Supper for the converted . Critics of the decision would later charge the synod with having created a " Half - Way Covenant . " 91 In the ensuing debates , three issues ...
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... principles of exclusion and inclusion within the church , nature and grace in the doctrine of salvation , and reason and revelation in the understand- ing of theological knowledge . Their scholastic maxim that revelation re- mained ...
... principles of exclusion and inclusion within the church , nature and grace in the doctrine of salvation , and reason and revelation in the understand- ing of theological knowledge . Their scholastic maxim that revelation re- mained ...
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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