The theological origins of modernity by Gillespie, Michael Allen

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Naming evil, judging evil

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Where did all the evils go? / Michael Allen Gillespie -- Seeing darkness, hearing silence : Augustine's account of evil / Stanley Hauerwas -- The Rousseauan revolution and the problem of evil / Ruth W. …”
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Freedom and the human person

Table of Contents: “…Shanley -- Justifying faith : grace and free will / Eleonore Stump -- Sovereign states and sovereign individuals : the question of political theory / Michael Allen Gillespie -- Freedom, republics, and peoples in Machiavelli's prince / Nathan Tarcov -- John Locke : toward a politics of liberty / Michael P. …”
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Freedom and the human person

Table of Contents: “…Shanley -- Justifying faith : grace and free will / Eleonore Stump -- Sovereign states and sovereign individuals : the question of political theory / Michael Allen Gillespie -- Freedom, republics, and peoples in Machiavelli's prince / Nathan Tarcov -- John Locke : toward a politics of liberty / Michael P. …”
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Nietzsche, nihilism and the philosophy of the future

Table of Contents: “…/ Stanley Rosen -- Toward a new aristocracy : Nietzsche contra Plato on the role of a warrior elite / Michael Allen Gillespie -- Nietzsche : nihilism and neo-gnosticism / Stanley Corngold -- Nietzsche rhetoric nihilism : every name in history, every style, everything permitted? …”
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Debt : ethics, the environment, and the economy

Table of Contents: “…Wolff -- "I consider it un-American not to have a mortgage": immigrant home ownership in Chicago / Elaine Lewinnek -- Demonizing debt, naturalizing finance / Mary Poovey -- On debt / Michael Allen Gillespie -- The growth imperative : prosperity or poverty / Joel Magnuson -- Democracy's debt : capitalism and cultural revolution / Stephen L. …”
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Debt : ethics, the environment, and the economy

Table of Contents: “…Wolff -- "I consider it un-American not to have a mortgage": immigrant home ownership in Chicago / Elaine Lewinnek -- Demonizing debt, naturalizing finance / Mary Poovey -- On debt / Michael Allen Gillespie -- The growth imperative : prosperity or poverty / Joel Magnuson -- Democracy's debt : capitalism and cultural revolution / Stephen L. …”
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