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The Hidden Balance: Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew

Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew

by John Corrigan

  • Paperback
  • 176 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm

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Congregationalist ministers Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew were among the most influential social and religious thinkers in Boston in the mid-eighteenth century. This study argues that Chauncy and Mayhew produced a complex but coherent body of ideas and that these ideas were organized closely and self-consciously around the principle of 'balance'. Writings on society and government are treated alongside theological works, rather than separate from them, and each man's corpus is placed against the background of English ideas as well as within the context of intellectual and social life in Boston. Investigation of the ideas of Chauncy and Mayhew in this way leads to the conclusion that although the two men believed that a cosmic principle of 'balance' organized social and religious life, they believed as well that full philosophical comprehension of this principle was beyond human capability. In order to express their understanding of cosmic order, Chauncy and Mayhew appropriated the metaphor of the 'great chain of being'.
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  • Author

    John Corrigan

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 2006

  • Weight

    268g

  • Page Count

    176

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521026710

  • ISBN-10

    0521026717

  • Eden Code

    3782458

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