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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... sense that the whole of theological truth could be viewed as a practical guide to salvation . Others restricted the use of the term to religious teachings about repentance , regeneration , and the Christian life . The practical ...
... sense that the whole of theological truth could be viewed as a practical guide to salvation . Others restricted the use of the term to religious teachings about repentance , regeneration , and the Christian life . The practical ...
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... sense of the word , speculative ; Calvinists insisted it was eminently practical . It would be more precise to refer to the " Reformed " rather than merely to the " Calvinist " tradition , for the French Protestant reformer of sixteenth ...
... sense of the word , speculative ; Calvinists insisted it was eminently practical . It would be more precise to refer to the " Reformed " rather than merely to the " Calvinist " tradition , for the French Protestant reformer of sixteenth ...
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... sense , " and the sense could include any “ rational inference " that might be " brought out of the Scripture by necessary circumstance . " Cotton's formulation suggested that the art of divinity combined the languages of scripture and ...
... sense , " and the sense could include any “ rational inference " that might be " brought out of the Scripture by necessary circumstance . " Cotton's formulation suggested that the art of divinity combined the languages of scripture and ...
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... sense to speak of a " New England Mind ” among the learned . They shared common convictions about a host of matters . But it is equally accurate to depict the history of theology in seventeenth - century New England as a troubled pro ...
... sense to speak of a " New England Mind ” among the learned . They shared common convictions about a host of matters . But it is equally accurate to depict the history of theology in seventeenth - century New England as a troubled pro ...
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... sense of the biblical texts that described a feeling of bondage and brokenness as preliminary to grace.53 Hooker believed that preparation required a ministry that would uncover sin . That meant preaching the law . Cotton agreed ...
... sense of the biblical texts that described a feeling of bondage and brokenness as preliminary to grace.53 Hooker believed that preparation required a ministry that would uncover sin . That meant preaching the law . Cotton agreed ...
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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