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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... sacraments , but the New England theolo- gians drew especially on a tradition of covenantal thought that originated in Germany . In 1562 a German Reformed theologian at Heidelberg , Zacharias Ursinus , began to distinguish between the ...
... sacraments , but the New England theolo- gians drew especially on a tradition of covenantal thought that originated in Germany . In 1562 a German Reformed theologian at Heidelberg , Zacharias Ursinus , began to distinguish between the ...
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... sacraments as prime examples of the means of grace expressive of the divine accommodation , but from the beginning the ideal of the covenanted church raised sacramental questions . Most of the ministers agreed that baptism , for ...
... sacraments as prime examples of the means of grace expressive of the divine accommodation , but from the beginning the ideal of the covenanted church raised sacramental questions . Most of the ministers agreed that baptism , for ...
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... sacramental thought and the doctrine of the church . And the defense of Calvinist tradition against perceptions of rationalist subversion led to both an expanded emphasis on the reasonableness of Christian doctrine and a heightened ...
... sacramental thought and the doctrine of the church . And the defense of Calvinist tradition against perceptions of rationalist subversion led to both an expanded emphasis on the reasonableness of Christian doctrine and a heightened ...
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... sacraments . Arguing from the Protestant position that the Lord's Supper was the Word made visible , he contended that it was a converting ordinance . He drew the idea from dissent- ing theologians in England who argued that the sacramental ...
... sacraments . Arguing from the Protestant position that the Lord's Supper was the Word made visible , he contended that it was a converting ordinance . He drew the idea from dissent- ing theologians in England who argued that the sacramental ...
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... sacramental piety , for instance , led John Eliot of Roxbury in 1678 to publish The Harmony of the Gospels , the first American attempt to harmonize the gospel accounts , which Eliot envisioned as reading in preparation for receiving ...
... sacramental piety , for instance , led John Eliot of Roxbury in 1678 to publish The Harmony of the Gospels , the first American attempt to harmonize the gospel accounts , which Eliot envisioned as reading in preparation for receiving ...
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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