I am grateful to two institutions for facilitating my research and writing during the academic year 1988-89: the University of Guelph, which granted me sabbatical leave for the year and provided me with a travel allowance from the Discretionary Fund of the Dean of Research; and The Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary, which conferred on me the status of Visiting Resea [...] Aristotle recognizes that it is often difficult to determine the degree of an agent's responsibility under such circumstances.85 Still, we can see that the "internal" dimension of constraint is more sig- nificant in the case of a person who acquiesces to authority because of fear of loss of social position than in the case of a person who acquiesces to authority because of torture. [...] Part of the answer is that use of the expression gives us some guidance as to what people consider to be the most important relations of religion and freedom; and in any event, the ambiguity of the expression mirrors the ambiguity of its component terms. [...] But any philosopher worth the name is at least sometimes a "lover of wisdom"; and if we are to take the view of Socrates and Plato seriously, then the primary motives and skills of the philosopher and the rhetorician are wholly different91 2 Religion as a Hindrance to Freedom While prepared to grant that some forms of religious life are freer than others, critics of religion itself, or of the mono [...] And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long- suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thou- sands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the chil- dren, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth gen
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Chapter 1 The Idea of Religious Freedom 12
- 1. A Valuable but Ambiguous Expression 14
- 2. Religion 15
- 3. Freedom: Lexical Analysis 18
- 4. Freedom: Theoretical Analysis 21
- 5. Types of Freedom 23
- 6. Determinism 27
- 7. Liberty; Religious Liberty; Autonomy 29
- 8. Types of Religious Freedom 30
- 9. Religious Freedom in Relation to Authority 35
- 10. 'Internal" Constraints; Absence of Opportunity 41
- 11. The Ideal Beyond the Rhetoric 44
- Chapter 2 Religion as a Hindrance to Freedom 46
- 1. The Theological Basis of Religious Repression: Hebrew Scripture 47
- 2. The Theological Basis of Religious Repression: The New Testament 57
- 3. The Psycho-social Basis of Religious Repression 63
- 4. The Philosophical Basis of Religious Repression 69
- Chapter 3 Religion as a Source of Freedom 76
- 1. Theology of Freedom: Hebrew Scripture 77
- 2. Theology of Freedom: The New Testament 81
- 3. Faith as an Incentive to Moral Action 85
- 4. A Prime Example: The Virtue of Humility 89
- 5. The Social Consequences of Spiritual Freedom 96
- 6. Religion in Relation to Other Sources of Freedom 99
- Chapter 4 Religious Liberty 104
- 1. The Idea of Religious Liberty 105
- 2. A Brief Historical Excursus 112
- 3. The Separation Principle 124
- 4. The Moral Justification of Religious Liberty: Theologicoethical Arguments and Appeals to Conscience 134
- 5. The Moral Justification of Religious Liberty: Utilitarian Arguments 141
- 6. The Moral Justification of Religious Liberty: Matters of Consistency and Authenticity 146
- Chapter 5 Religious Liberalism 154
- 1. Liberalism 155
- 2. The Idea of Religious Liberalism 162
- 3. Philosophy and Liberal Religion 171
- 4. Criticisms of Religious Liberalism 180
- 5. Liberal Religion and Spiritual Freedom 187
- Chapter 6 Freedom and Authority 192
- 1. Resolving the Paradoxes 193
- 2. The Marks of Legitimate Authority 197
- 3. Charismatic Authority 208
- 4. Authority and Love 215
- Notes 224
- Index 240
- A 240
- B 240
- C 241
- D 242
- E 242
- F 243
- G 243
- H 244
- I 244
- J 244
- K 245
- L 245
- M 245
- N 246
- O 246
- P 246
- Q 247
- R 247
- S 248
- T 249
- U 249
- V 249
- W 249
- X 249
- Z 249
