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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... theologians of various kinds promi- nently enter the picture . The historian must take them seriously because they created for themselves a place at the theological table and forced the academic theologians to take them seriously in ...
... theologians of various kinds promi- nently enter the picture . The historian must take them seriously because they created for themselves a place at the theological table and forced the academic theologians to take them seriously in ...
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... theologians ruled the realm of ideas . America's first learned class consisted largely of Protestant clergy , and the relatively small number of pastors who published books of theology , or " divinity , " attained the status of the most ...
... theologians ruled the realm of ideas . America's first learned class consisted largely of Protestant clergy , and the relatively small number of pastors who published books of theology , or " divinity , " attained the status of the most ...
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... theologians to such an extent that one can hardly hope to understand the nineteenth - century literary renaissance without knowing something about the theological ideas current in the culture . In an era when the common law allowed free ...
... theologians to such an extent that one can hardly hope to understand the nineteenth - century literary renaissance without knowing something about the theological ideas current in the culture . In an era when the common law allowed free ...
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... theologians distinguished between extrinsic or external evidences (the appeal to miracle and fulfilled prophecy) and internal evidences based on the intrinsic credibility of Christian teaching, the internal consistency of the Bible, and ...
... theologians distinguished between extrinsic or external evidences (the appeal to miracle and fulfilled prophecy) and internal evidences based on the intrinsic credibility of Christian teaching, the internal consistency of the Bible, and ...
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... theologians in the antebellum era found theoretical support especially in the eighteenth - century Scottish philosophical theories collectively known as Common Sense Realism . Grounded in the writing of Thomas Reid at Glasgow and Dugald ...
... theologians in the antebellum era found theoretical support especially in the eighteenth - century Scottish philosophical theories collectively known as Common Sense Realism . Grounded in the writing of Thomas Reid at Glasgow and Dugald ...
Contents
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| 23 | |
Part 2 The Baconian Style | 157 |
Part 3 Alternatives to Baconian Reason | 395 |
26 Afterword | 505 |
Notes | 513 |
Index | 597 |
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