Benjamin Franklin and His GodsUniversity of Illinois Press, 1999 - Počet stran: 213 Against the religious backdrop of pre- and postcolonial America stands the towering figure--and mind--of Benjamin Franklin. A Renaissance man in a Revolutionary time, Franklin had interests and knowledge not only in religion but in literature, philosophy, politics, publishing, history, and scientific inquiry, among many other disciplines. Kerry S. Walters examines Franklin's search for the Divine using a similar, multifaceted approach--and in so doing has created the first extended treatment of Franklin's religious thought in thirty years. Walters brings the same intellectual range and depth to the understanding of Franklin's beliefs that Franklin brought to his own quest. What emerges from this pilgrimage into the soul of one of America's greatest figures is a very human Benjamin Franklin who grew with the accumulation of knowledge to arrive at a "theistic perspectivism," which provided him with a philosophical explanation for the diversity of religious faiths--and a justification for the liberty of conscience he advocated throughout his life. Benjamin Franklin and His Gods is an original and beautifully challenging spiritual and intellectual biography. Destined to be a classic. |
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... Consequently , the commen- tator sometimes unwittingly forces the issue by feeding the texts around the spindle of his own pet theory and then weaving an interpretive fabric that appeals to those passages that support it and ignores ...
... Consequently , the commen- tator sometimes unwittingly forces the issue by feeding the texts around the spindle of his own pet theory and then weaving an interpretive fabric that appeals to those passages that support it and ignores ...
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... consequently discordant and even contradictory inter- pretations arise . In short , most commentators on Franklin's religion concur on the presence of the trees but disagree as to the lay of the forest . Although efforts to come to ...
... consequently discordant and even contradictory inter- pretations arise . In short , most commentators on Franklin's religion concur on the presence of the trees but disagree as to the lay of the forest . Although efforts to come to ...
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... Consequently , the individual must be on guard , continuously search- ing for a modus vivendi by which to balance them . His Autobiography's famous program for the habituation of virtue , ridiculed by Lawrence as a " player pi- ano ...
... Consequently , the individual must be on guard , continuously search- ing for a modus vivendi by which to balance them . His Autobiography's famous program for the habituation of virtue , ridiculed by Lawrence as a " player pi- ano ...
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... Consequently , it is too simple to claim , as Aldridge does , that Franklin's mature religious thought is polytheistic , albeit with an eighteenth - century deistic twist . Franklin was not a polytheist , and although he was clearly ...
... Consequently , it is too simple to claim , as Aldridge does , that Franklin's mature religious thought is polytheistic , albeit with an eighteenth - century deistic twist . Franklin was not a polytheist , and although he was clearly ...
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... Consequently , the ambivalence in his religious thought originally bred by his divided loyalties to Calvinism and deism gradually became less disturbing to him personally , although just as glaring when examined from an external ...
... Consequently , the ambivalence in his religious thought originally bred by his divided loyalties to Calvinism and deism gradually became less disturbing to him personally , although just as glaring when examined from an external ...
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Between Worlds | 17 |
A False Start | 43 |
The Great Insight | 67 |
A Comfortable Belief | 96 |
Taming Wolves | 113 |
Sugar and Paper | 130 |
Notes | 153 |
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