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John Adams didn't enjoy traveling. He much preferred to stay home with his wife and children. But John Adams also had a dream: He wanted to see the thirteen colonies free from English rule. He wanted to see the creation of a new country -- the United States of America. John Adams did whatever was needed to make his dream come true.
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This critical study decodes the most cryptic and elusive patterns of Karl Barth's dialectic. Hunsinger not only offers a new and authoritative interpretation of Barth's mature theology, but also places Barth's work in relation to contemporary discussions of truth, justified belief, double agency, and religious pluralism. Through a fresh and compelling reading of Church Dogmatics, Hunsinger offers a new account of the coherence of that work as a whole.
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A valuable tool for reading Barth!.......2006-02-03
This book stands on its own in the field of "Introducing Karl Barth." Hunsinger's book is exactly what it says it is: a book on HOW TO READ Karl Barth. Hunsinger believes that pattern-recognition can not only to help the inexperienced and overwhelmed readers of Barth, but can also aid the academy of our time to read him more holistically. This book becomes more difficult the farther one goes into it. I would suggest that one not try to read it on its own apart from Barth's works. As a philosophy major and follower of Christ, what I find attractive about Barth and Hunsinger is their strong capability in logic and analysis, which is governed by the theological task itself (and not the other way around!). The other reviews describe the content of the book sufficiently, so let me end by claiming that this book shows just why Hunsinger is considered by John Webster (at Aberdeen) to be "a matchless reader of Barth." In fact, I would venture to claim that Hunsinger is probably the most capable reader in theology today! His model of pattern-recognition provides a helpful model in reading other theologians, especially those who did not write in linear fashion. I would highly suggest taking a class with Professor Hunsinger at Princeton Theological Seminary if you ever have the chance.
One of the Most Perceptive Accounts of Barth's Theology.......2003-07-30
Hunsinger is a matchless reader of Karl Barth and we are in his debt for this book. Barth, as has been noted time and again, is no easy read. Though his German edition of the CD received awards for the style in which he wrote, the English edition is difficult even for the most dedicated. The 50 pages we were required to read weekly in seminary during classes on Barth's CD sometimes seemed a tremendous amount. Yet, one was always rewarded for the patience required in reading such an amount on a regular basis--one volume completed by the end of the semester. When it is all said and done--Barth's work is simply overwhelming and awe-inspiring. Hunsinger helps us all by pointing out important themes in Barth's work. To have these various themes pointed out, helps immeasureably. One cannot read Hunsinger's book without gaining a deeper appreciation for Barth's complexity or his achievement, or Hunsinger's abilities as a theologian and teacher/ writer. Along with Bruce McCormack's book on Barth this is an absolutely necessary volume for anyone interested in Barth's theology.
an essential guide to reading the church dogmatics.......2000-08-23
I got this book after I had been reading Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics for a year. Barth's writing is truly dense, and has led to many misunderstandings of him. This book has helped me to notice patterns that I had missed before. I read this book in parallel with Barth's treatment of divine election, and this book saved me from misinterpreting Barth as a universalist. In terms of practical use, I can't think of a better book.
Having taken a class from him, he is a truly brilliant teacher, and he has helped me to pay close attention to the text. One of the poverties in American theology is that the art of commentary has been lost. The medieval universities trained the Scholastic theologians by making them do close readings (lectio) of important texts (e.g. the Bible, Lombard's Sentences, etc.). Whether you agree with the Scholastics or not is one thing, but you cannot deny that the disciplined approach to theology led to some monumental achievements. Hunsinger's book is a tool to help you do that with Barth.
This book has two parts. The first part suggests six patterns that run throughout the Church Dogmatics (particularism, actualism, realism, personalism, rationalism and another one which I can't recall just now). The second part is a set of etudes on Barth's theology utilizing the 6 patterns. Hunsinger addresses the issue of double agency in Barth's soteriology, secular parables of the kingdom of God, his view of revelation, etc.
On a different subject, the other best secondary sources on Barth are Bruce McCormack's intellectual history of the pre-dogmatics Barth, John Webster's _Ethics of Reconciliation_ and Hans Urs Von Balthasar's classic study.
An excellent resource.......2000-04-13
This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the theology of Karl Barth. George Hunsinger has provided the theological community with a new, refined vocabulary for analyzing Barth's (and others') theology. He expounds a number of characteristic thought patterns characteristic of Barth's theology (and which might give considerable trouble to the new reader) and makes them accessible. His study is very helpful in bringing out the coherence and import of Barth's work. Reading this book is a great aid in accessing Barth's theology (right up there with learning German!)
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Does every increase in the power of government entail a loss of liberty for the people? James H. Read examines how four key Founders--James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson--wrestled with this question during the first two decades of the American Republic.
Power versus Liberty reconstructs a four-way conversation--sometimes respectful, sometimes shrill--that touched on the most important issues facing the new nation: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, federal authority versus states' rights, freedom of the press, the controversial Bank of the United States, the relation between nationalism and democracy, and the elusive meaning of "the consent of the governed."
Each of the men whose thought Read considers differed on these key questions. Jefferson believed that every increase in the power of government came at the expense of liberty: energetic governments, he insisted, are always oppressive. Madison believed that this view was too simple, that liberty can be threatened either by too much or too little governmental power. Hamilton and Wilson likewise rejected the Jeffersonian view of power and liberty but disagreed with Madison and with each other.
The question of how to reconcile energetic government with the liberty of citizens is as timely today as it was in the first decades of the Republic. It pervades our political discourse and colors our readings of events from the confrontation at Waco to the Oklahoma City bombing to Congressional debate over how to spend the government surplus. While the rhetoric of both major political parties seems to posit a direct relationship between the size of our government and the scope of our political freedoms, the debates of Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson confound such simple dichotomies. As Read concludes, the relation between power and liberty is inherently complex.
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Precise View of Madison.......2002-05-26
Recent scholarship has revealed a much more consistent 'Madison' than some historians have granted 'The Father of the Constitution'.Scholars Rosen, Banning, and Rakove have lead the way in this regard. Reads contribution although brief is as Rakove pointed out a deft work.By highlighting the concerns Madison held about the excresent powers of the Continental Congress, amidst the environment where the Congress was frustrated from performing the assigned tasks, revitalizes and reinforces the devotion Madison held for Constituional integrity reconciling the thoughts and actions of Madison in the 1780s, to the 1790s. It is only wished this essay could be expanded, and that the author could apply a more expanded study on Madison's contributions.
User-friendly exploration on the role of/limit to government.......2001-11-30
Dr. James Read was a recent guest on National Public Radio. His scholarship is evident, but what he has written here is a very "user-friendly" exploration of the early American debate on the role of government, which is as pertinent today as it was in 1776.
Dr. James Read has given us a highly readable, as well as well researched, look at a question which all Americans ponder: "Is big government antagonistic to individual rights and liberties?" The discussion is framed in the context of those early American thinkers who initially set up the American system of government with an especial emphasis on Jefferson and Hamilton.
This is a very readable book that is written in straightforward prose. It presents a nice, concise history of America's early philosophical public policy issues, its greatest thinkers, and the debate in the 18th century about what form the American government would take. It is fascinating to read about the debates taking place in the hammering out of the United States' Constitution.
The book is organized into:
Power and Liberty (James Madison);
Libertarianism and nationalism (Alexander Hamilton);
Popular Sovereighty (James Wilson);
Liberty and States Rights (Thomas Jefferson).
Disappointing.......2000-06-04
Before reading this work, I looked upon it as very promising. Read, in contrast the vast majority of other historians of the era, proposes to analyze and contrast the political philosophies of four major early Americans by examining their views on the relationship between power and liberty. Thus, the author is also in effect transcending the trite republicanism/liberalism dichotomy that has domincated scholarship for decades by returning to the methodology used by the great Bernard Bailyn. Unfortunately, the author ultimately fails to execute.
Madison is the first thinker that he discusses, and along with the chapter on Wilson, this is the highlight of the book. He effectively argues that Madison was a much more consistent thinker than past scholars have made him out to be. While Madison's transformation from an ally to Hamilton during the Constitutional Convention to a strong opponent several years later has long puzzled historians, Read demonstrates the consistenty that he maintained in both positions as related through his interpretation of the Constitution and the public's understanding and perception of it. In addition to this, he also undertakes the strangely neglected task of comparing Madison with Hamilton. This however, leads the first major downfall of the study, viz. his unsound analysis of Hamilton.
To begin with, even the subtitle of this chapter is enough to arouse one's suspicions. Hamilton is characterized as a "Libertarian and nationalist." The later appelation is certainly undisputable, but the former is clearly absurd to anyone who has any idea what libertarianism actually entails. Throughout the chaper, Hamilton's supposed commitment to liberty and other traditional Whig or republican principles is given far too much emphasis with far too little substantive evidence. Along with this, Hamilton's views on Constitional and economic policy are given a shallow, sympathetic treatment, while other aspects of his life and thought are either ignored or merely glossed over. This of course, largely serves to vitiate the very promising contrast of Hamilton with Madison that he conducts.
Nevertheless, the chapter on James Wilson is quite valuable, especially since he, unlike the other 3 figures dealt with, has been prodominantly ignored by modern scholars. He shows that while Wilson was as committed to the concept of popular sovreignty as Thomas Jefferson, he believed that the proper manner to systemize this was primarily through the Federal government. Hence, Wilson, like Hamilton, was a proponent of "energetic government," because he viewed it as the proper systemization of the "energy" of the sovereign people.
Although the chaper on Hamilton was bad, that dealing with Jefferson is worse. Read, quite correctly, recognizes throughout the work that Jefferson, (unlike Madison, Hamilton, and Wilson) viewed power and liberty as polar opposites, with every increase of power entailing a proportionate decrease in liberty. T Surprisingly , however, his actual analysis of his thought is among the worst that I have ever read. He seems to make a concerted effort to make his political philosophy as nebulous and contradictory as possible. Moreover, while he cites David N. Mayer's invaluable work on Jefferson's Constitutional thought, and even states that fellow scholar Michael Zuckert helped him with the work; he utilizes the flawed and inaccurate work of Lance Banning and Richard Matthews. As a result of this, he takes up the absurd contention that Jefferson was an agrarian who opposed capitalism, and thus Hamilton and his radical vision for a new economic order.
This view, in addition to being completely unfounded, also highlights the paucity of Read's sources. Such important works as Joyce Appleby's "Capitalism & A New Social Order" and Garret Sheldon's "The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson" are completely ignored.
While the analysis of Jefferson's thought is dramatically poor, perhaps the worst aspect of the work is the author's translation of views of each thinker to the politcal landscape of the late 20th century. For the first three thinkers, he manages to claim that their theories may actually be able to fit modern day circumstances. Jefferson, however, is excluded from this, given his radical views on power. In each case, he uses the common statist platitude that convictions formulated two centuries ago cannot apply to issues out of their temporal context. In the case of all of these men, even Hamilton, this argument is patently absurd, as their adherence to the principals of natural rights and liberty certainly make clear. As Jefferson once said, Nothing...is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man." Consideration of this, among other Founding principles, has led even as staunch a Hamiltonian as Forrest McDonald to conclude the Founding Fathers would look upon the current government as tyrannical. As should be obvious, I view this work as very deeply flawed. Nevertheless, given the proper author utilizing the same methodology, this could have been a truly fascinating and valuable piece of scholarship.
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DK Readers: Free At Last, The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Level 4: Proficient Readers)
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This Level 4 book is appropriate for proficient readers.
Free at Last! is a biography of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who encouraged non-violent protest to fulfill his dream of an America where people would be judged by "the content of their character, not by the color of their skin." These 48-page books about fascinating subjects like pirates, mummies, and volcanoes are for proficient readers who can understand a rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structure. In addition to the stunning photographs, informative sidebars, and glossary, readers will find archival photographs and paintings. Averaging 4,500 to 5,000 words in length, Level 4 books are 40 percent pictures and 40 percent text. The Dorling Kindersley Readers combine an enticing visual layout with high-interest, easy-to-read stories to captivate and delight young bookworms who are just getting started. Written by leading children's authors and compiled in consultation with literacy experts, these engaging books build reader confidence along with a lifelong appreciation for nonfiction, classic stories, and biographies. There is a DK Reader to interest every child at every level, from preschool to grade 4.
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A high percentage of challenges to library materials are successful, but libraries which have clearly-stated, board approved policies for dealing with requests for reconsideration are more likely to prevail. Protecting the Right to Read provides public and school librarians with the strategies and information they need to safeguard their community's right to unfettered access to information in all formats. This essential manual shows how to develop basic policies and procedures; deal with considerations specific to school and public libraries; respond to--and gain the support of--the media; handle requests for reconsideration; protect intellectual freedom on the information superhighway; and understand and prepare for developing trends of the future. Appendixes include all interpretations of ALA's Library Bill of Rights as well as sample policies and statements (including ones for the Internet) from other organizations.
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Awake for freedom's sake
Leonard Edward Read
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Banned Books Resource Guide: Celebrating the Freedom to Read : A Resource Book (Banned Books Resource Guide)
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a fantastic resource.......1999-01-04
While doing research on the banning of huckeleberry finn over the years, I stumbled on this book at the library. It is an excellent resource and contains wonderful, useful information. There are listings of pertinent court cases, books banned in 1996, dated bannings of hundreds of books, and ideas to combat book banning and celebrated banned books week. Celebrate the freedom to read!
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Banned Books Week '89: Celebrating the freedom to read : a resource book
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Thousands of people apply for citizenship in the United States every year, and this reference provides valuable information for foreign nationals who currently live and work in the United States and wish to apply for citizenship, those who work with U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services, individuals who teach courses on U.S. citizenship, English as a second language instructors, legal support staff, and others. It offers descriptions of the process, requirements, application procedure, and test samples. Also included are sample forms and a directory of Immigration and Naturalization Service offices as well as U.S. passport agencies.
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