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Multiple reviewers praised What Hath God Wrought and described it in superlative terms. Publishers Weekly called it "one of the most outstanding syntheses of U. S. history published this decade". [27] Richard Carwardine said What Hath God Wrought "lays powerful claim to being the best work ever written on this period of the American past".
The group took its name from a prophecy that claimed the four kingdoms of Daniel would precede the fifth, which would see the establishment of the kingship and kingdom of God on Earth. One of a number of Nonconformist sects that emerged during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms , its best-known adherent was Major-General Thomas Harrison , who was ...
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (/ ˈ ʃ l aɪ ər m ɑː x ər /; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃlaɪɐˌmaxɐ]; 21 November 1768 – 12 February 1834) was a German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity.
394 God's freedom. 396 Leibniz on laws of nature. 399 God is not a system, but a life; finite life in man. 402 God brought forward order from chaos. 403 History is incomprehensible without a concept of a humanly suffering God. 406 Primal ground (Ungrund) is before all antitheses; groundlessness self-divides. 409 Evil is a parody.
In 2004, two mystery plays (one focusing on the Creation and the other on the Passion) were performed at Canterbury Cathedral, with actor Edward Woodward in the role of God. The large cast also included Daniel MacPherson, Thomas James Longley and Joseph McManners. [21]
The intentional stance is a term coined by philosopher Daniel Dennett for the level of abstraction in which we view the behavior of an entity in terms of mental properties.It is part of a theory of mental content proposed by Dennett, which provides the underpinnings of his later works on free will, consciousness, folk psychology, and evolution.
Essay VII of the Essays in Retrieval was titled "Elegant Tombstones: A Note on Friedman's Freedom" and was a direct challenge to certain assumptions of "freedom" made by Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom. For Macpherson, capitalism was discordant with freedom. Part of the disagreement can be found in the differing interpretations of ...
Porphyry saw Christians as treasonous and immoral, and believed that those who would not convert away from the religion should be executed. [5] As quoted by Jerome, Porphyry mocked Paul and the early Christians while suggesting that the "magical arts" performed by Jesus of Nazareth and his followers were nothing special, done similarly by other figures of Greco-Roman history: [6]