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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... interpretation : these are the twin hurdles any interpreter of Franklin's reflections on religion must leap . Partly because of the disorganization and daunting volume of Franklin's Introduction: In Search of Franklin's Religion.
... interpretation : these are the twin hurdles any interpreter of Franklin's reflections on religion must leap . Partly because of the disorganization and daunting volume of Franklin's Introduction: In Search of Franklin's Religion.
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... interpretations runs from hagiography to vilification . The eighteenth - century Abbé Fauchet , for example , paid Franklin the backhanded compliment in 1790 of calling him " the philosopher par excel- lence of protestantism . " 2 Less ...
... interpretations runs from hagiography to vilification . The eighteenth - century Abbé Fauchet , for example , paid Franklin the backhanded compliment in 1790 of calling him " the philosopher par excel- lence of protestantism . " 2 Less ...
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... interpretation has it that Franklin journeyed " intellectually the entire distance from atheism to polytheism . " 19 But this claim , when weighed against Franklin's writings , simply doesn't hold up . Al- though the young Franklin ...
... interpretation has it that Franklin journeyed " intellectually the entire distance from atheism to polytheism . " 19 But this claim , when weighed against Franklin's writings , simply doesn't hold up . Al- though the young Franklin ...
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... interpret Frank- lin's talk about " gods " as a groping effort to formulate the doctrine of theis- tic perspectivism . Perspectivism , not polytheism , is the key to Franklin's reli- gious thought . Aldridge comes close to this insight ...
... interpret Frank- lin's talk about " gods " as a groping effort to formulate the doctrine of theis- tic perspectivism . Perspectivism , not polytheism , is the key to Franklin's reli- gious thought . Aldridge comes close to this insight ...
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... interpretation , one that Lawrence himself failed to recognize . Aldridge correctly sees that Franklin's religious thought is developmental rather than monolithic , and he equally soundly focuses on Franklin's discussions of " gods " as ...
... interpretation , one that Lawrence himself failed to recognize . Aldridge correctly sees that Franklin's religious thought is developmental rather than monolithic , and he equally soundly focuses on Franklin's discussions of " gods " as ...
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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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