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Franklin’s Deism … Distant Love of God, Close Love of Self

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Rachel

Benjamin Franklin’s deism emerges, surprisingly, out of a semi-traditional belief system. In Autobiography, he situates his own religious principles by comparing them to the Presbyterian belief system. He denies “some of the Dogmas of that Persuasion,” but upholds what he … Continue reading →

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Relationality and the Autobiographical “I” in Mary Rowlandson

Posted on February 15, 2011 by John Vasoli

On relationality in autobiographical acts, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson in Reading Autobiography write, “This concept of relationality, implying that one’s story is bound up in that of another, suggests that the boundaries of an ‘I’ are often shifting and … Continue reading →

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Of the gracious mercy that I hath been shown

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Crystal Frost

In the year of the Lord 1992, in the Spring of that year, when I was but a young child, my parents did begin, through the goodness of the Lord, the building of a home for themselves and for their … Continue reading →

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