Freedom's Holy Light: American Identity and the Future of Theology |
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... biblical depths behind his often deistic language . The following passage from his second inaugural can hard- ly be ... bible was much used by him for meditative reading . Later he expan- ded this literary and theological project by ...
... biblical depths behind his often deistic language . The following passage from his second inaugural can hard- ly be ... bible was much used by him for meditative reading . Later he expan- ded this literary and theological project by ...
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... Bible . The Bible , after all , was the one common authority that underlay all the divergent denominationalism . The Bible could not be restricted to only one or to all the sects . It became in fact the people's book that interpreted to ...
... Bible . The Bible , after all , was the one common authority that underlay all the divergent denominationalism . The Bible could not be restricted to only one or to all the sects . It became in fact the people's book that interpreted to ...
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... Bible rather than in the denominations and who expect the American nation to pick up some of the slack by performing some- thing of a churchly office . It is the Bible and a tradition of Calvinist spirituality that is dominant in ...
... Bible rather than in the denominations and who expect the American nation to pick up some of the slack by performing some- thing of a churchly office . It is the Bible and a tradition of Calvinist spirituality that is dominant in ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 3 | 26 |
Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
Copyright | |
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