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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... sermons and tracts of local Protestant and Catholic clergy , the ideas of theologians reached an audience that knew little of science or philosophy . Early American theologians were themselves usually local pastors , speaking weekly to ...
... sermons and tracts of local Protestant and Catholic clergy , the ideas of theologians reached an audience that knew little of science or philosophy . Early American theologians were themselves usually local pastors , speaking weekly to ...
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... sermons and popular tracts , and any history of theology in America must consider such sources . Seventeenth - century sermons , in any event , usu- ally presented biblical themes in accord with formulas defined by sixteenth- century ...
... sermons and popular tracts , and any history of theology in America must consider such sources . Seventeenth - century sermons , in any event , usu- ally presented biblical themes in accord with formulas defined by sixteenth- century ...
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... sermons on " the force of prophecy , as affecting the truth of the Bible , ” and he began to feel that the evidences pro- vided “ good and substantial reasons for the truth of the Christian religion . ” The books of the New Testament ...
... sermons on " the force of prophecy , as affecting the truth of the Bible , ” and he began to feel that the evidences pro- vided “ good and substantial reasons for the truth of the Christian religion . ” The books of the New Testament ...
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... sermons , " and he argued that theology in America was “ eminently practical ” because everyone agreed that “ the theological system , which is best fitted to be preached , is on that account most entitled to be believed . " Park came ...
... sermons , " and he argued that theology in America was “ eminently practical ” because everyone agreed that “ the theological system , which is best fitted to be preached , is on that account most entitled to be believed . " Park came ...
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... sermons . In the first half of the century only Samuel Stone , the minister in Hartford , wrote a “ Whole Body of Divinity " covering all the standard topics in a systematic fashion . He completed it in 1656 , but he never had it ...
... sermons . In the first half of the century only Samuel Stone , the minister in Hartford , wrote a “ Whole Body of Divinity " covering all the standard topics in a systematic fashion . He completed it in 1656 , but he never had it ...
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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