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... specifically English and Protestant version of rationalism . This world vision is structured , as we have seen , around the general rationalist categories of firstly , the discrete rational individual , secondly , freedom from external ...
... specifically English and Protestant version of rationalism . This world vision is structured , as we have seen , around the general rationalist categories of firstly , the discrete rational individual , secondly , freedom from external ...
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... specifically Christian nature of the theology to which he adheres . Indeed , the entire problem which Woodhouse poses — that is , the problem of reconciling the un - tragic nature of Christianity with the demands of the tragic form - is ...
... specifically Christian nature of the theology to which he adheres . Indeed , the entire problem which Woodhouse poses — that is , the problem of reconciling the un - tragic nature of Christianity with the demands of the tragic form - is ...
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... specifically , a bourgeois . But this does not find expression in any ambivalence over the question of Biblical authority , as Hill argues . 32 Rather , it finds expression in Milton's peculiarly meritocratic theory of election , and in ...
... specifically , a bourgeois . But this does not find expression in any ambivalence over the question of Biblical authority , as Hill argues . 32 Rather , it finds expression in Milton's peculiarly meritocratic theory of election , and in ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Copyright | |
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