-
SIGN IN BELOW
Group Blogs
-
Tag Cloud
- "Tool Kit"
- 20% project
- Alison Bechdel
- Anne Bradstreet
- audience
- authenticity
- Autobiographical Truth
- Autobiography
- Benjamin Franklin
- Cabeza de Vaca
- character sketch
- Claudia Rankine
- coaxers
- coercers
- Comic
- Confession
- Don't Let Me Be Lonely
- Embodiment
- ethics
- Experience
- Fun Home
- Giralamo Cardano
- Gurdwara
- identity
- Ideological I
- Knowledge
- Memory
- Naming
- Narrative
- parental influences
- Puritan
- puritanism
- Puritans
- Reading Autobiography
- relationality
- religion
- Religious Ideologies & Disasters
- Self
- Sherman Alexie
- Sikh
- Smith and Watson
- Spiritual Autobiography
- storytelling
- The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me
- Voice
-
Recent Posts
Tag Archives: Ben Franklin
Franklin’s Deism … Distant Love of God, Close Love of Self
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Ben Franklin, Deism, Essentials of Religion, Motivation, puritanism
Comments Off on Franklin’s Deism … Distant Love of God, Close Love of Self
Like Father Like Son
Ben Franklin’s Autobiography is highly unique in that it was written in four parts, each occurring at very different parts of his life. His original intention, shown in Part 1 of the autobiography, is to present his own life as … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged audience, Autobiography, Ben Franklin
Comments Off on Like Father Like Son
