Benjamin Franklin and His GodsUniversity of Illinois Press, 1999 - 213 من الصفحات 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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... Calvinism and the rationalistic ones of the Enlightenment that Franklin never managed to resolve . At times his religious ... Calvinist and Enlightenment allegiances . Consequently , it is too simple to claim , as Aldridge does , that ...
... Calvinism and the rationalistic ones of the Enlightenment that Franklin never managed to resolve . At times his religious ... Calvinist and Enlightenment allegiances . Consequently , it is too simple to claim , as Aldridge does , that ...
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... Calvinist background . Instead , Franklin is best described as a man intensely concerned with reli- gious questions ... Calvinism on the one hand and deism on the other , he never rested con- tent with a mechanical conjunction of the two ...
... Calvinist background . Instead , Franklin is best described as a man intensely concerned with reli- gious questions ... Calvinism on the one hand and deism on the other , he never rested con- tent with a mechanical conjunction of the two ...
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... Calvinist texts , he early on began to suffer from religious doubts that unsettled both himself and his family . His parents ' consternation over their son's budding apostasy is revealed in letters he later sent them in which he rather ...
... Calvinist texts , he early on began to suffer from religious doubts that unsettled both himself and his family . His parents ' consternation over their son's budding apostasy is revealed in letters he later sent them in which he rather ...
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... Calvinist worldview whose central tenets he found unacceptable . Theistic perspectivism satisfied his reason by admitting the existence of an impassable and unknowable First Cause , but it also salvaged his emotional need for a per ...
... Calvinist worldview whose central tenets he found unacceptable . Theistic perspectivism satisfied his reason by admitting the existence of an impassable and unknowable First Cause , but it also salvaged his emotional need for a per ...
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... Calvinist theology with the deistic assumptions of Enlightenment rationalism . But his convic- tion that all human attempts to conceptualize God and divine workings are necessarily metaphorical did not succeed in ameliorating the ...
... Calvinist theology with the deistic assumptions of Enlightenment rationalism . But his convic- tion that all human attempts to conceptualize God and divine workings are necessarily metaphorical did not succeed in ameliorating the ...
المحتوى
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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Addison Aldridge Alfred Owen ambivalence American argued argument atheism Autobiography Benjamin Franklin Bonifacius Boston Calvinism Calvinist Cause chap Christian church claim concludes Consequently conviction Cotton Mather credo D. H. Lawrence defended deism deists deity Denham Dissertation Dissertation's divine doctrine Dogood letters early eighteenth-century England Enlightenment Essay evil example faith fictions Fowler Frank Franklin and Nature's Franklin's religious thought George Whitefield God's gods Hemphill Hemphill's human Ibid Increase Mather insight intellectual James Jane Mecom John Jonathan Edwards Joseph Priestley Josiah Keimer later Lawrence liberal liberal Christianity logical London Madame Brillon metaphysical mind moral natural necessitarianism never Newton orthodox pain Papers Philadelphia philosophical polytheism prayer Presbyterian Puritan rational reason reflections religion religious beliefs religious perspective says sectarian sects Shaftesbury Silence Dogood special providences spirit tells theistic perspectivism theological thing tion truth University Press virtue William Wollaston worldview worship Writings wrote young Franklin youth
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A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000 <span dir=ltr>Bruce Kuklick</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2003 |