The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820Harvard University Press, 1997 - 220 halaman This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... authority of specific ministerial opponents , and it also raises a previously unthinkable presump- tion about communal leadership in general . Suddenly , answers are conceiv- able that place Providence in the mass rather than in the ...
... authority of specific ministerial opponents , and it also raises a previously unthinkable presump- tion about communal leadership in general . Suddenly , answers are conceiv- able that place Providence in the mass rather than in the ...
Halaman 64
... authority in this world is " slavish " and " proof of a very sordid and base mind . " Now the previous metaphors for limiting authority begin to disestablish it . If magistrates are really " the servants of the people , ” then , " in ...
... authority in this world is " slavish " and " proof of a very sordid and base mind . " Now the previous metaphors for limiting authority begin to disestablish it . If magistrates are really " the servants of the people , ” then , " in ...
Halaman 67
... authority : " When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice : but when the wicked beareth rule , the people mourn " ( Prov- erbs 29 : 2 ) . The standard triadic plan of the sermon doctrine , reason , uses ( text , explication ...
... authority : " When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice : but when the wicked beareth rule , the people mourn " ( Prov- erbs 29 : 2 ) . The standard triadic plan of the sermon doctrine , reason , uses ( text , explication ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
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