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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... truth about mysteries that have puzzled the greatest intellects . They have tried to interpret the text of the Christian and Jewish scriptures accurately , to repre- sent traditions consistently, and to rethink the language of a viii ...
... truth about mysteries that have puzzled the greatest intellects . They have tried to interpret the text of the Christian and Jewish scriptures accurately , to repre- sent traditions consistently, and to rethink the language of a viii ...
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... truth , " and he commended as well the mastery of natural philosophy and history . Two hun- dred years later , the ... truths from the " inspired volume " but that part of their duty was to show that scripture , properly understood ...
... truth , " and he commended as well the mastery of natural philosophy and history . Two hun- dred years later , the ... truths from the " inspired volume " but that part of their duty was to show that scripture , properly understood ...
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... truths , including the idea of truth itself , which had an eternal reality transcending time and space . Such ideas suggested the reality of a supraindividual , eternal , divine mind . The second , rooted in Aristotelian thought and ...
... truths , including the idea of truth itself , which had an eternal reality transcending time and space . Such ideas suggested the reality of a supraindividual , eternal , divine mind . The second , rooted in Aristotelian thought and ...
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... truth by signs, wonders, and miracles (Heb. 2:4), and by the second century, Christian apologists regularly appealed ... truths with moral and religious experience. Such argumentation briefly fell out of favor in the early ...
... truth by signs, wonders, and miracles (Heb. 2:4), and by the second century, Christian apologists regularly appealed ... truths with moral and religious experience. Such argumentation briefly fell out of favor in the early ...
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... 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 were genuine and accurate , Jesus performed miracles and ...
... 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 were genuine and accurate , Jesus performed miracles and ...
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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