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The Hidden Balance - Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew (Hardcover)
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The Hidden Balance - Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew (Hardcover)
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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 1987 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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