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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... Deists , and Libertines . " 4 William Robertson , principal of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh , more judiciously wrote in 1765 that " of all the Sciences the only in which I suspect he is not perfectly sound " is theology . Joseph ...
... Deists , and Libertines . " 4 William Robertson , principal of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh , more judiciously wrote in 1765 that " of all the Sciences the only in which I suspect he is not perfectly sound " is theology . Joseph ...
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... deistic twist . Franklin was not a polytheist , and although he was clearly more sympathetic to the Enlightenment's religion of nature than to Calvinism's religion of revelation , the essential ambivalence of his convictions resists a ...
... deistic twist . Franklin was not a polytheist , and although he was clearly more sympathetic to the Enlightenment's religion of nature than to Calvinism's religion of revelation , the essential ambivalence of his convictions resists a ...
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... deism on the other , he never rested con- tent with a mechanical conjunction of the two . Rather , he sought a unifying principle that would serve as a catalyst for their synthesis , an organic bond that would absorb without duplicating ...
... deism on the other , he never rested con- tent with a mechanical conjunction of the two . Rather , he sought a unifying principle that would serve as a catalyst for their synthesis , an organic bond that would absorb without duplicating ...
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... deistic God of nature , whose necessary existence is demonstrable through the light of reason , cannot meet these needs . He ( or , more accurately , “ it ” ) is as remote as the stars , and just as cold . Reason cannot fully fathom its ...
... deistic God of nature , whose necessary existence is demonstrable through the light of reason , cannot meet these needs . He ( or , more accurately , “ it ” ) is as remote as the stars , and just as cold . Reason cannot fully fathom its ...
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... deism out of defiance of his parents and their religion as much as from sympathy with its principles . Fired with an enthu- siasm for this newly found but uncritical faith , he fell into a facile mechanism whose logic forced him to deny ...
... deism out of defiance of his parents and their religion as much as from sympathy with its principles . Fired with an enthu- siasm for this newly found but uncritical faith , he fell into a facile mechanism whose logic forced him to deny ...
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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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