Apostle Of Liberty Research Articles

Paul, Apostle of Liberty. By Richard N.Longenecker. Foreword by Douglas A.Campbell. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: William B.Eerdmans,2015. Pp. xxviii + 407. $34.00.

Paul, Apostle of Liberty. By Richard N.Longenecker. Foreword by Douglas A.Campbell. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: William B.Eerdmans,2015. Pp. xxviii + 407. $34.00.

‘A Species of Slavery’: Richard Price's Rational Dissent and Antislavery

Revd Richard Price was one of the leading intellectual lights of Rational Dissent in late eighteenth-century Britain and was prominent in campaigns for religious and parliamentary reform. Hailed as an ‘Apostle of Liberty’ by the American and French Revolutionaries, Price was also an early subscriber to the Abolition Society in London. While prominent among British Enlightenment figures he had, however, a low profile as an abolitionist and is seldom mentioned in scholarship on abolition. This study discusses the nature of Price's antislavery and his relationship with Americans such as Thomas Jefferson. It sheds more light on the degree to which the emergence of abolitionism depended upon circumstances and how well it combined with other aims and priorities.

Saint of Authority and the Saint of the Spirit: Paul Sabatier's Vie de S. François D'Assise

Men may glorify as discoveries some insignificant trifles that supply little or no evidence and bestow name of new documents on late accounts of doubtful authenticity, but there is nothing further to be known concerning St. Frances, and ... Bollandists, Chalippe and Papini, writing ore than a century ago, knew as much, more or less, concerning St. Francis, no new fact, episode, or saying had been added to his life. MGR. FALOCI (1902) The criticism of Franciscan origins is still in its infancy. PAUL SABATIER (1901) The divide separating two mentalities represented in epigraph runs like a fault line through later nineteenth century Roman Catholicism. On many theological fronts -- biblical studies, apologetics, ecclesiastical history -- proponents of traditional positions who considered everything of fundamental importance to have been said were confronted by expansions of critical methods who saw themselves mapping out little-explored territory. The traditional hagiography was not exempt; it too faced a critical revisionism characterized by methods and a mentality informed by historical criticism. The often oppositional relations between traditionalists and progressives formed part of context for Catholic reception of a nonCatholic's biography of St. Francis of Assisi. In November of 1893 Paul Sabatier (1858-1928) published at his own expense his Vie de S. Francois d'Assise.(1) Its author was an unknown; he had published nothing previously in Franciscan studies. Yet book enjoyed an almost instant success; by following March biography was translated into English and German. It received sufficient notice from Vatican to be placed on Index of Prohibited Books and from French Academy to be awarded crown of honor. Even those most opposed to its portrait of Francis acknowledged its influence.(2) Both popularity and influential character of Sabatier's biography invited comparison with another biography published three decades earlier: Ernest Renan's Vie de Jesus (1863).(3) It too was prefaced by a critical study of sources and like Sabatier's effort was suffused with a romanticism that permeated portrait of its principal subject. While a number of factors have been adduced to account or success of Sabatier's Vie de S. Francois,(4) two that it shares with Renan's Vie de Jesus are worth closer consideration here. On one level, Sabatier's liberal Protestantism appeared more palatable to Catholics than did Renan's overt rationalism. The former's critical conclusions were less extreme, treatment of his subject more respectful by comparison. But if application of method was more restrained, spirit which informed method was no more acceptable. On another level, their criticism converged; it naturalized miraculous and ultimately rationalized supernatural. To Catholic traditionalists historical criticism appeared to be a means of recreating Jesus or Francis into critic's own image and likeness. The Lives produced by such critics were less biographical representations of their subjects than presentations of a thesis. As such they took on character of novels -- fictionalized renderings more indebted to authorial imagination than to historical reality. In short, Sabatier, like Renan, had produced a roman-a-these. Or, more properly, given reactions to influenced conclusions of criticism, a roman-a-hypothse.(5) The spirit which traditionalists detected in these works and which made them uneasy was only partly rooted in historical criticism. That spirit also reenacted a romanticism which contributed to Franciscan revival and was a factor in popularity of both Renan's and Sabatier's Lives. As C. N. L. Brooke has observed, the nineteenth-century romantics found (or thought they found) a man after their own heart, a lover of mankind, a lover of animals, an apostle of liberty -- a libel romantic in thirteenth century. …

Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought.

Acknowledgements Chronology Introduction The age of Paine 'Apostle of liberty': the life of Thomas Paine 'The cause of all mankind': Paine and the American revolution Republicanism contested: Burke's Reflections (1790) and the Rights of Man (1791-2) Paine's achievement A great awakening: the birth of the Revolutionary Party Inequality vindicated: the government party Revolution in heaven: the Age of reason (1794-5) Revolution in civilization: Agrarian Justice (1797) Conclusion Political saint: the legend of Thomas Paine Bibliography Index

Book Review: Paul, Apostle of Liberty

Book Review: Paul, Apostle of Liberty

Paul, Apostle of Liberty

Paul, Apostle of Liberty

Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side

In the most controversial analysis ever written of the apostle of American liberty, the distinguished constitutional historian Leonard W. Levy examines Jefferson's record on civil liberties and finds it strikingly wanting. Clearing away the saintliness that surrounds the hero, Mr. Levy tries to understand why the unfamiliar Jefferson supported loyalty oaths; countenanced internment camps for political suspects; drafted a bill of attainder; urged prosecutions for seditious libel; condoned military despotism; used the Army to enforce laws in time of peace; censored reading; chose professors for their political opinions; and endorsed the doctrine that means, however odious, are justified by ends. Implicitly, Mr. Levy writes, this book is a study of libertarian leadership in time of power and time of danger...Jefferson should be seen [by his biographers] as a whole man in the perspective of his times, but my task is to determine the validity of his historical reputation as the apostle of liberty. Blunt words and blunt facts...an indispensable book.-Commentary.

The Apostle of Liberty

The Apostle of Liberty

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Le Coq, John P., Vignettes Littéraires.Mauriac, François, Le Drôle. Edited by Isabelle H. Clarke.Moore, Olin H. and Meiden, Walter. Onze Contes, An Introduction to Reading French.G. Gougenheim, P. Rivenc, R. Michéa and A. Sauvageot: L'Elaboration du français élémentaire—Etude sur l'établissement d'un vocabulaire et d'une grammaire de base.Beginning German in Grade Three. (An) MLA guide produced with the cooperation of the American Association of Teachers of German.Fontane, Theodor, Die Poggenpuhls. Edited by Derrick Barlow.Schuster, Christian, Elements of German.Vittorini, Domenico, The Age of Dante.La Fuye, Maurice de and Babeau, Emilie, The Apostle of Liberty. Translated by Edward Hyams.Language: An Inquiry into its Meaning and Function (Science of Culture Series, Vol. VIII. Planned and edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen)

The Apostle of Liberty: A Life of La Fayette

The Apostle of Liberty: A Life of La Fayette

Lord Action: Apostle of Liberty

Lord Action: Apostle of Liberty

Articles in Quaker Periodicals

ARTICLES IN QUAKER PERIODICALS By Frederick B. Tolles and Dorothy G. Harris The Friend (Philadelphia) "William Penn, Armiger," by S. L. H. V. (H. Justice Williams), discusses Penn's coat-of-arms.—October 12, 1944, p. 120. "Penn and the Poets," by Elizabeth Janet Gray, points out that although in general Penn disapproved of poetry, the poet Abraham Cowley was one of his favorite authors.—October 26, 1944, pp. 133-135. "The Effects of Conscription on European Quakerism," by Leslie D. Shaffer, demonstrates that conscription was largely responsible for the disintegration of early Quaker groups on the European continent.— November 9, 1944, pp. 147-149. "The Peace Movement in Japan," by Gilbert Bowles, gives attention to the important rôle played by the author, a Kansas Friend, who worked in Japan from 1899 to 1941 under the auspices of the Foreign Mission Board of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Arch Street).—November 23, December 7 and 21, 1944, pp. 165-169, 181-185, 197-201. "William Penn," by J. Garner Anthony, is a transcript of an address given by the former Attorney General of Hawaii at the Penn Tercentenary program in Honolulu.—February 1, 1945, pp. 247-250. "The Last Third of a Century," by D. Lawrence Burgess, sketches developments at Germantown Friends School during the last thirty-three of its one hundred years.—April 26, 1945, pp. 341-344. Friends Intelligencer "George Fox's Journal, 1694-1944," by Henry J. Cadbury, discusses the circumstances of publication of this classic of the varieties of religious experience.—December 23, 1944, pp. 839-840. "John Bright, Friend and Politician," by Mary G. Cary, is a biographical sketch with the suggestion that modern Friends would do well to imitate Bright by taking part in politics.—March 31, 1945, pp. 205-206. "Lavender and the Grand Turk," by Martha Serene Lewis, tells the story of Mary Fisher's visit to the Sultan in 1658,—June 9, 1945, pp. 366-368. "Did the Germans Understand Quaker Relief ?" by Walter Fales, draws on the archives of the American Friends Service Committee to show both appreciation and criticism of the Committee's work in 1920.—July 7, 1945, pp. 429-431. 47 48 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION "Tuke's Retreat for the Mentally 111," by Hugh Chapman, is an account of the York Retreat, first modern mental hospital, written by a C. P. S. attendant in a mental hospital.—July 21, 1945, pp. 461-462. The American Friend "William Penn: Apostle of Liberty and Human Rights," by Rufus M. Jones.—October 19, 1944, pp. 417-419. "The Statesmanship of William Penn," by Harlow Lindley.—October 19, 1944, p. 420-421. "William Penn—Pioneer" was a radio address by T. Edmund Harvey.— November 16, 1944, pp. 456-457. "A French and English Alliance: Stephen Grellet and Elizabeth Fry," by William J. Sayers, discusses the personal relationships of these two nineteenth century Friends.—May 3 and 17, 1945, pp. 164-165, 187-188. The Friend (London) "The Background of French Quakerism" gives a summary of the Quaker movement in France from the time of the convincement of the first Frenchman in 1706 through the present critical war years, in which French Friends have been able to carry on their corporate religious and relief activities.—September 1, 1944, pp. 564-566. The Penn Tercentenary number contains Rufus M. Jones's estimate of William Penn as "Apostle of Liberty and Human Rights."—October 13, 1944, pp. 659-663. The life of "Arthur Stanley Eddington, 1882-1944," outstanding Quaker astronomer, whose great intellectual and spiritual gifts included true humility and kindness of spirit, is recorded by the Quaker physicist, George A. Sutherland, of the University of Manchester.—December 1, 1944, pp. 775-777. In "Light from the Rhineland," Rufus M. Jones reviews the movement of six hundred years ago known as "Friends of God." Members of this Rhineland group, in their mystical interpretation of Christianity and their belief in the power of the inward spirit to transform man's life, are thought to be the spiritual ancestors of Friends.—March 2, 1945, pp. 133-136. "The Strange Episode of the Russian 'Quakers'," by Tom D. Copeman, is an intriguing account of a brief...