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"A fascinating collection of studies, The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays explores the historical and theoretical underpinnings of personal liberty and free government and provides a trenchant analysis of the crisis of civic consciousness endangering both of them today. The book addresses a range of issues in contemporary political philosophy and constitutional theory. These are seen to be all the more urgant in importance because of the surging aspirations for liberty in the wake of the collapes we see throughout the Middle East, Africa, and other areas, and the withdrawal from leadership in America and Europe. While each essay can stand alone, there is an underlying thematic unity to the collection. Several essays focus on American political thought, with emphasis on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Two elements in particular, are treatet: the jurisprudential and common law background to the American political tradition and the centrality of religion within the unfolding of the American poltiical experiement. Sandoz explores the uncommon alliance of philosophers, statesmen, and evangelicts during the nation's founding This alliance, nurturing communities of persons bound togehter by their faith and a mutual regared for one another, played a vital role in the establishment of the system of freedom under law. Sandoz sees the tension between religion and natural law as a constant in the human struggle for freedom. That the preservation of liberty under law is no easy task is acknowledged and addressed, Anyone interested in teh "politics" of "truth" will appreciated this book"--

Intro -- Ellis Sandoz, Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, Two Volumes -- Volume One -- Title Page -- Copyright Details -- Table of Contents, p. vii -- Foreword, p. xi -- Acknowledgments, p. xxiii -- Editor's Note to the 1998 Edition, p. xxv -- Editor's Note, p. xxvii -- Bibliographic Note, p. xxxiii -- Chronology 1688-1773, p. 3 -- 1. Government the Pillar of the Earth [1730], p. 7 -- 2. Nineveh's Repentance and Deliverance [1740], p. 25 -- 3. The Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants [1744], p. 51 -- 4. Britain's Mercies, and Britain's Duties [1746], p. 119 -- 5. Civil Magistrates Must be Just, Ruling in the Fear of God [1747], p. 137 -- 6. The Mediatorial Kingdom and Glories of Jesus Christ, p. 179 -- 7. The Presence of God with His People [1760], p. 207 -- 8. The Snare Broken [1766], p. 231 -- 9. An Humble Enquiry [1769] , p. 265 -- 10. An Oration Upon the Beauties of Liberty [1773], p. 301 -- 11. An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty [1773], p. 327 -- Chronology, 1774-1781, p. 369 -- 12. Scriptural Instructions to Civil Rulers [1774], p. 373 -- 13. A Calm Address to our American Colonies [1775], p. 409 -- 14. A Constitutional Answer to Wesley's Calm Address [1775] , p. 421 -- 15. America's Appeal to the Impartial World [1775], p. 439 -- 16. The Church's Flight into the Wilderness: An Address on the Times [1776], p. 493 -- 17. The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men [1776], p. 529 -- 18. The Bible and the World [1776], p. 559 -- 19. God Arising and Pleading his People's Cause [1777], p. 581 -- 20. Divine Judgments Upon Tyrants [1778], p. 607 -- 21. A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution [1780], p. 627 -- 22. A Sermon Preached at Lexington on the 19th of April [1781], p. 657 -- Chronology, 1782-1788, p. 683.

The ancient constitution in medieval England / J.C. Holt -- The place of Magna Carta and the ancient constitution in sixteenth-century English legal thought / Christopher W. Brooks -- Ancient constitutions in the age of Sir Edward Coke and John Selden / Paul Christianson -- The jurisprudence of liberty the ancent constitution in the legal historiography of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John Phillip Reid

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Republicanism and Religion -- 2 Foundations of American Liberty and Rule of Law -- 3 Education and the American Founding -- 4 Americanism -- 5 Carrying Coals to Newcastle -- 6 Medieval Rationalism or Mystic Philosophy? -- 7 Gnosticism and Modernity -- 8 The Spirit of Voegelin's Late Work -- 9 Truth and the Experience of Epoch in History -- Bibliographical Appendix -- Index.

This volume explores the historical and theoretical underpinnings of personal liberty and free government and provides an analysis of the crisis of civic consciousness endangering both.

AbstractThe philosopher is first and foremost a human being whose humanity must be served by his academic profession if it is not to be irremediably pretentious, farcical, and corrupt. This is the Voegelinian paradigm. The present essay argues that anybody who is seriously interested in understanding Eric Voegelin as he understood himself is obliged to come to grips with the issues evoked by the perspectives this statement suggests. It is further argued that several general consequences follow: (a) underlining the loving tension toward divine Reality in open existence as central; (b) abandoning doctrinal fixation of separating faith and reason as supernatural and natural, respectively; (c) discarding as egophany the arrogant pretense of autonomous reason as its originator in self-sufficient human speculators; and (d) constantly remembering that devotion to the discipline and conventions of inquiry and of society must ever defer to devotion to the truth of existence.