The Christian intellectual tradition from the Reformation to the modern era : a reader and companion / Josh A. Reeves, Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug, Annalise J.K. DeVries, Gabrielle Stanton Ray, and Jennifer Woodruff Tait.
| Author/creator | Reeves, Josh A., 1976- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | © 2025 |
| Description | vii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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| Other author/creator | Birkhaug, Kirstin Anderson, author. |
| Other author/creator | DeVries, Annalise J. K., 1982- author. |
| Other author/creator | Ray, Gabrielle Stanton, author. |
| Other author/creator | Tait, Jennifer L. Woodruff, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxhhyKvVfdfqKfhfpYdcP |
| Contents | Why study the Christian liberal arts tradition -- Introduction to theology : The Schleitheim confession (1527) by Michael Sattler and others -- Institutes of the Christian religion (1559) by John Calvin -- The interior castle (1577) by Teresa of Ávila -- Pensées [Thoughts] (ca. 1660) by Blaise Pascal -- "Salvation by faith" (1738) by John Wesley ; "Free grace: and can it be that I should gain" (1738) by Charles Wesley -- "An elegiac poem, on the death of that celebrated divine, and eminent servant of Jesus Christ, the late reverend, and pious, George Whitefield" (1770) ; "A hymn to the evening" and "On being brought from Africa to America" (1773) ; "On the death of General Wooster" (1778) by Phillis Wheatley -- The age of reason (1794) by Thomas Paine -- The way of holiness (1845) by Phoebe Worrall Palmer -- On the genealogy of morality (1887) by Friedrich Nietzsche -- Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesterton -- Introduction to history of science : On the revolutions of heavenly spheres (1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus -- "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" (1615) by Galileo Galilei -- The new Organon, or True directions concerning the interpretation of nature (1620) by Francis Bacon -- The world (1664) by René Descartes -- Observations upon experimental philosophy (1666) by Margaret Cavendish -- "General scholium" to the Principia (1726) by Isaac Newton -- "A lecture on earthquakes" (1755) by John Winthrop -- On the origin of species (1859) by Charles Darwin -- The principles of psychology (1890) by William James -- Introduction to politics : Doctrine of discovery (1500s-1600s), Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius -- A short account of the destruction of the Indies (1542) by Bartolomé de las Casas -- Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes -- Second treatise of government (1689) and Letter concerning toleration (1689) by John Locke -- A discourse on the origin of inequality (1755) and The social contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Reflections on the revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke -- The theory of moral sentiments (1759) and An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (1776) by Adam Smith -- Federalist no. 10 (1787) and Federalist no. 51 (1788) by James Madison -- The communist manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx -- Introduction to human nature : Concerning Christian liberty (1520) by Martin Luther -- "On cannibals" (1580) by Michel de Montaigne -- Women's speaking justified (1666) by Margaret Fell -- A vindication of the rights of woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft -- "Memorial to the Massachusetts legislature" (1843) by Dorothea Dix -- "What, to the slave, Is the Fourth of July?" (1852) by Frederick Douglass -- Illustrations of universal progress (1865) by Herbert Spencer -- "We are all bound up together" (1866) and "A double standard" (1898) by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- The souls of Black folk (1903) by W. E. B. Du Bois. |
| Abstract | "This reader with commentary helps Christians understand great texts from the Western intellectual tradition on themes related to theology, science, politics, and human nature"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2025013762 |
| ISBN | 9781540968043 |
| ISBN | 1540968049 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781540969668 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1540969665 (hardcover) |
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