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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... meaning of a text . But there is also a real danger in conceptual templating . It runs the risk of trivializing the actu- al ambiguities , inconsistencies , dead ends , and retrenchments that may be present in a work , and which reflect ...
... meaning of a text . But there is also a real danger in conceptual templating . It runs the risk of trivializing the actu- al ambiguities , inconsistencies , dead ends , and retrenchments that may be present in a work , and which reflect ...
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... meaning of the free- dom it posits as its end , and is in fact complacently blind with respect to any positive moral values or genuinely spiritual sense of human life . " 12 Any number of other purple encomiums and condemnations of ...
... meaning of the free- dom it posits as its end , and is in fact complacently blind with respect to any positive moral values or genuinely spiritual sense of human life . " 12 Any number of other purple encomiums and condemnations of ...
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... meaning into individual lives . All religious perspectives , then , insofar as they aim at the same end , contain the potential for both instruction and edification . Not all of them are equally reflective or salutary , but none of them ...
... meaning into individual lives . All religious perspectives , then , insofar as they aim at the same end , contain the potential for both instruction and edification . Not all of them are equally reflective or salutary , but none of them ...
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... meaning to an individual's life and encouraging him or her to pursue virtue , and their inter- nal coherence . The divine may be representable only in terms of symbolic and metaphorical expressions , but the standard of coherency ...
... meaning to an individual's life and encouraging him or her to pursue virtue , and their inter- nal coherence . The divine may be representable only in terms of symbolic and metaphorical expressions , but the standard of coherency ...
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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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