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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... moral values or genuinely spiritual sense of human life . " 12 Any number of other purple encomiums and condemnations of Franklin the religious thinker could be cited , but the pattern would hold . Some com- mentators read him as a ...
... moral values or genuinely spiritual sense of human life . " 12 Any number of other purple encomiums and condemnations of Franklin the religious thinker could be cited , but the pattern would hold . Some com- mentators read him as a ...
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... moral thought as noth- ing more than a smug brief for bourgeois , marketplace values . Franklin , Lawrence insists ... morals . The highest form of veneration humans can bestow on this deity is worldly activity that leads to commercial ...
... moral thought as noth- ing more than a smug brief for bourgeois , marketplace values . Franklin , Lawrence insists ... morals . The highest form of veneration humans can bestow on this deity is worldly activity that leads to commercial ...
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... moral bromides . 14 Do this , and one is happy , wealthy , and wise . Do that , and one wins worldly success as well as spiritual dividends from the heavenly stockbroker . Lawrence refuses to be seduced by such a simplistic and smug ...
... moral bromides . 14 Do this , and one is happy , wealthy , and wise . Do that , and one wins worldly success as well as spiritual dividends from the heavenly stockbroker . Lawrence refuses to be seduced by such a simplistic and smug ...
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... morality , and he read the pattern of Franklin's religious writings through a template , namely , his own disgust at anything that smacked of middle - class complacency . Since Franklin was claimed by the received wisdom of Lawrence's ...
... morality , and he read the pattern of Franklin's religious writings through a template , namely , his own disgust at anything that smacked of middle - class complacency . Since Franklin was claimed by the received wisdom of Lawrence's ...
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... moral improvement of humankind , and the infusion of 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 ...
... moral improvement of humankind , and the infusion of 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 ...
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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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