Dichotomy and American Culture

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  • ダイコトミーとアメリカ文化
  • ダイコトミー ト アメリカ ブンカ

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This chapter discusses how what is theologically called free will, originally predicated of God, came to characterize, though to different levels, both deism and evangelicalism in the United States during the 18^<th> and 19^<th> century when God ceased to be very active, and also how free will differentiates between God's responsibility and human responsibility. God's responsibility and human responsibility had been treated mostly as mutually exclusive, with the empiricist, curiously enough, in favor of the former and the rationalist the latter, when, however, most evangelists started to work together, not alternatively, with the divine will and human will, entrusting themselves with the philanthropic work of salvation through the Gospel, thus pragmatically justifying their belief in God. Despite this temporal synergistic attitude toward free will and responsibility, dichotomy will continuously evolve somewhere between THE TOUGH-MINDED and THE TENDER-MINDED, e.g., between evangelical determinism and intellectualistic liberalism, the latter being more concerned with free will or possession of individual identity.

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  • GAKUEN

    GAKUEN 798 137-149, 2007-04-01

    東京 : 光葉会

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