Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-governmentLucas Morel examines what the public life of Abraham Lincoln teaches about the role of religion in a self-governing society. Lincoln's understanding of the requirements of republican government led him to accommodate and direct religious sentiment toward responsible self-government. As a successful republic requires a moral or self-controlled people, Lincoln believed, the moral and religious sensibilities of a society should be nurtured. |
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... Moral of the Story : Literature and Public Ethics , edited by Henry T. Edmondson III Well - Ordered License : On the Unity of Machiavelli's Thought , by Markus Fischer Lincoln's Sacred Effort Defining Religion's Role in American Self -
... Moral of the Story : Literature and Public Ethics , edited by Henry T. Edmondson III Well - Ordered License : On the Unity of Machiavelli's Thought , by Markus Fischer Lincoln's Sacred Effort Defining Religion's Role in American Self -
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... moral or self - controlled people , he believed the moral and religious impulse of society should be nurtured . Both helped to moderate the excesses of passion and self - interest in the community . As Introduction.
... moral or self - controlled people , he believed the moral and religious impulse of society should be nurtured . Both helped to moderate the excesses of passion and self - interest in the community . As Introduction.
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... moral reform movements that promoted temperance and abolition . Some of these reform societies tended to approach their causes with a self - righteousness that allowed little room for discussion and hence posed a threat to the ...
... moral reform movements that promoted temperance and abolition . Some of these reform societies tended to approach their causes with a self - righteousness that allowed little room for discussion and hence posed a threat to the ...
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... morality , influenced by the virtues and vices of revealed religion , presented Lincoln with a political burden intrinsic to free government . Lincoln addressed these issues with an eye toward preserving the respective domains of both ...
... morality , influenced by the virtues and vices of revealed religion , presented Lincoln with a political burden intrinsic to free government . Lincoln addressed these issues with an eye toward preserving the respective domains of both ...
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... morality . Stripped of any pretensions that might have made them dangerous to republicanism , churches were free to reform society according to the moral law held in common by both revelation and reason . The Politics of Revelation and ...
... morality . Stripped of any pretensions that might have made them dangerous to republicanism , churches were free to reform society according to the moral law held in common by both revelation and reason . The Politics of Revelation and ...
Contents
Religious Politics and Political Religion | 7 |
The Political Utility of Religion | 23 |
The Political Accommodation of Religion | 85 |
The Political Vices of Religion An Interpretation of the Temperance Address | 125 |
The Political Limits of Reason and Religion An Interpretation of the Second Inaugural Address | 163 |
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Index to Lincolns Speeches and Writings | 233 |
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About the Author | |
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