Intellectual Freedom - It Isnt Free :: Politics Political

intelligent Freedom - It Isnt FreeWe have lingered in the chambers of the seaBy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownTill human voices wake us, and we drown.T.S. Eliot, The Love nisus of J. Alfred PrufrockVery few of us are unfamiliar with the Genesis beak of creation, where it is written that graven image said, Let there be light, and there was light. 1 The obvious charge is that God creates the world but later writings have elect to focus on the idea that the divine being both creates and destroys by the power of His word alone. God spoke, and it came to be. 2 By the time of the Gospel of toilette was put to paper, we are informed that the word is not merely an manner of God it is, in fact, no less than God himself. 3 The word is divine. peculiarly after Augustine, who articulated Christian doctrine as the road to God passing directly within self, the knowledgeable word has been seen not still as the source of insidemost self, but of conscience as well. 4 In terms of Augustinian inwardness, God is to be found in the intimacy of self-presence. 5 The national triangulation of self involves what the Athanasian Creed referred to as the reasonable soul and the flesh as two elements, with God the third in between. 6 In fact, it is clear that the pilot film construction of the First Amendment was devoted to protecting precisely this Augustinian notion of inner light, this inner word and presence of God. 7 This is what Tom Paine, chaplain to the American Revolutionary soldiers (and power of Common Sense) referred to when he wrote his well-known dictum that my own mind is my church. 8 As early as the 1740s, for example, it was the New Light Congregationalists (ironically similar in theological outlook to the ill-fated Anne Hutchinson 9 ), who posed what became the central axiom of the American renewal the idea that liberty of conscience is the inalienable right of every cerebral creature. 10 Note how similar Paines notion of his own mind being his inner sanctum is to the Quaker notion of the inner light, which Staughton Lynd described as the preface to the political faith of the Dissenter, as of the subsequent Declaration of Independence.