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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... religious convictions . His reflections on things divine are volumi- nous , but scattered in time as well as unsystematic in presentation . These two qualities account for the difficulty in pinning down his religious beliefs . In the ...
... religious convictions . His reflections on things divine are volumi- nous , but scattered in time as well as unsystematic in presentation . These two qualities account for the difficulty in pinning down his religious beliefs . In the ...
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... religious beliefs have adopted . In working their way through his sometimes baffling remarks on God , religion , and ethics , they've arrived at cohesive but artificial patterns by stamping his writings with any number of templates ...
... religious beliefs have adopted . In working their way through his sometimes baffling remarks on God , religion , and ethics , they've arrived at cohesive but artificial patterns by stamping his writings with any number of templates ...
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... [ religious belief ] of his own ... , none at all . " 8 Flamarene's apprais- al was obviously shared by many of his ... Christian orthodoxy himself , later echoed the judgment by branding Frank- lin as that type of worldly and ...
... [ religious belief ] of his own ... , none at all . " 8 Flamarene's apprais- al was obviously shared by many of his ... Christian orthodoxy himself , later echoed the judgment by branding Frank- lin as that type of worldly and ...
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... religious belief . To be human , the mature Franklin believed , is an often frightening busi- ness . It is to be ... faith and anxiety . Consequently , the individual must be on guard , continuously search- ing for a modus vivendi by ...
... religious belief . To be human , the mature Franklin believed , is an often frightening busi- ness . It is to be ... faith and anxiety . Consequently , the individual must be on guard , continuously search- ing for a modus vivendi by ...
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... religion and 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 ...
... religion and 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 ...
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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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