Freedom's Holy Light: American Identity and the Future of Theology |
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... biblical in- sight that far transcends the modern civil religion's demand for a reference to God in the last ... biblical one : " Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the in- habitants thereof " [ Leviticus 25:10 ] ...
... biblical in- sight that far transcends the modern civil religion's demand for a reference to God in the last ... biblical one : " Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the in- habitants thereof " [ Leviticus 25:10 ] ...
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... Biblical Prophetism The solitary grandeur of Lincoln is due not to some socio- logical role he was called to play but to his taking into his own being the depth of biblical prophetism . That biblical inheritance had been shaped , of ...
... Biblical Prophetism The solitary grandeur of Lincoln is due not to some socio- logical role he was called to play but to his taking into his own being the depth of biblical prophetism . That biblical inheritance had been shaped , of ...
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... biblical images by any nation that has outgrown its origins in weak- ness and as an oppressed people and that now seeks to climb the perilous citadels of world power . Such a nation can wrongly demythologize its biblical im- ages into ...
... biblical images by any nation that has outgrown its origins in weak- ness and as an oppressed people and that now seeks to climb the perilous citadels of world power . Such a nation can wrongly demythologize its biblical im- ages into ...
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CHAPTER 3 | 26 |
Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
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