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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... term even further , referring to doctrines as practical only if their lively presenta- tion from the pulpit could elicit conversion or guide ethical decisions . - Almost from the beginning , theologians in America emphasized Introduction 9.
... term even further , referring to doctrines as practical only if their lively presenta- tion from the pulpit could elicit conversion or guide ethical decisions . - Almost from the beginning , theologians in America emphasized Introduction 9.
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... tion . " Even some educated and socially prominent pastors , like the powerful New York Presbyterian Gardiner Spring , worried that the seminaries would promote " the ideal of a learned rather than a spiritual and useful ministry ...
... tion . " Even some educated and socially prominent pastors , like the powerful New York Presbyterian Gardiner Spring , worried that the seminaries would promote " the ideal of a learned rather than a spiritual and useful ministry ...
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... tion between typical and exemplary readings . Types were outward signs of future spiritual realities ; examples were not . Types pointed beyond them- selves ; examples bore their meanings on the surface . The visible types were ...
... tion between typical and exemplary readings . Types were outward signs of future spiritual realities ; examples were not . Types pointed beyond them- selves ; examples bore their meanings on the surface . The visible types were ...
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... tion . God rather changed the inclination . The point allowed the ministers to think of the human being as a " cause by counsel , ” a creature who acted “ according to the free - motion of his own will . ” As long as people acted with ...
... tion . God rather changed the inclination . The point allowed the ministers to think of the human being as a " cause by counsel , ” a creature who acted “ according to the free - motion of his own will . ” As long as people acted with ...
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... tion in thee . " Bulkeley insisted that the God who required the conditions also fulfilled them " for us . 949 Bulkeley pointed out the advantage of the equivocal language . By saying that the covenant was conditional , the preachers ...
... tion in thee . " Bulkeley insisted that the God who required the conditions also fulfilled them " for us . 949 Bulkeley pointed out the advantage of the equivocal language . By saying that the covenant was conditional , the preachers ...
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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