Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Catalogue of the ... library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: Timothy Alden
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The Religion of Democracy
Author: Amy Kittelstrom
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698192249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A history of religion’s role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation’s founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today’s debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly understood. American democracy was intended by its creators to be more than just a political system, and in The Religion of Democracy, historian Amy Kittelstrom shows how religion and democracy have worked together as universal ideals in American culture—and as guides to moral action and the social practice of treating one another as equals who deserve to be free. The first people in the world to call themselves “liberals” were New England Christians in the early republic, for whom being liberal meant being receptive to a range of beliefs and values. The story begins in the mid-eighteenth century, when the first Boston liberals brought the Enlightenment into Reformation Christianity, tying equality and liberty to the human soul at the same moment these root concepts were being tied to democracy. The nineteenth century saw the development of a robust liberal intellectual culture in America, built on open-minded pursuit of truth and acceptance of human diversity. By the twentieth century, what had begun in Boston as a narrow, patrician democracy transformed into a religion of democracy in which the new liberals of modern America believed that where different viewpoints overlap, common truth is revealed. The core American principles of liberty and equality were never free from religion but full of religion. The Religion of Democracy re-creates the liberal conversation from the eighteenth century to the twentieth by tracing the lived connections among seven thinkers through whom they knew, what they read and wrote, where they went, and how they expressed their opinions—from John Adams to William James to Jane Addams; from Boston to Chicago to Berkeley. Sweeping and ambitious, The Religion of Democracy is a lively narrative of quintessentially American ideas as they were forged, debated, and remade across our history.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698192249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A history of religion’s role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation’s founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today’s debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly understood. American democracy was intended by its creators to be more than just a political system, and in The Religion of Democracy, historian Amy Kittelstrom shows how religion and democracy have worked together as universal ideals in American culture—and as guides to moral action and the social practice of treating one another as equals who deserve to be free. The first people in the world to call themselves “liberals” were New England Christians in the early republic, for whom being liberal meant being receptive to a range of beliefs and values. The story begins in the mid-eighteenth century, when the first Boston liberals brought the Enlightenment into Reformation Christianity, tying equality and liberty to the human soul at the same moment these root concepts were being tied to democracy. The nineteenth century saw the development of a robust liberal intellectual culture in America, built on open-minded pursuit of truth and acceptance of human diversity. By the twentieth century, what had begun in Boston as a narrow, patrician democracy transformed into a religion of democracy in which the new liberals of modern America believed that where different viewpoints overlap, common truth is revealed. The core American principles of liberty and equality were never free from religion but full of religion. The Religion of Democracy re-creates the liberal conversation from the eighteenth century to the twentieth by tracing the lived connections among seven thinkers through whom they knew, what they read and wrote, where they went, and how they expressed their opinions—from John Adams to William James to Jane Addams; from Boston to Chicago to Berkeley. Sweeping and ambitious, The Religion of Democracy is a lively narrative of quintessentially American ideas as they were forged, debated, and remade across our history.
Necrology ...
Author: Andover Theological Seminary. Alumni Association
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England
Author: William DeLoss Love
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Category : Fasts and feasts
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Category : Fasts and feasts
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
The American Biographical Dictionary
Author: William Allen
Publisher: Boston : Jewett
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : Jewett
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Annals of the American Pulpit: Unitarian Congregational. 1865
Author: William Buell Sprague
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Annals of the American Pulpit
Author: William Buell Sprague
Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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