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... individual , liberates him from the seemingly endless dissipation and dispersion of modern life , and inspires him ... individuals with their special . historical traditions . He himself looked at nature through the glasses of his ...
... individual , liberates him from the seemingly endless dissipation and dispersion of modern life , and inspires him ... individuals with their special . historical traditions . He himself looked at nature through the glasses of his ...
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... individual . Here the pragmatism of his actions against injustice in society outruns his ideology of the indi- vidual . The great divorce in America between the funda- mentalist churches and the liberal churches and even be- tween ...
... individual . Here the pragmatism of his actions against injustice in society outruns his ideology of the indi- vidual . The great divorce in America between the funda- mentalist churches and the liberal churches and even be- tween ...
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... individual conver- sion and become in effect another political party with only a slight religious cast , they are ... individual needs to be heard by the liberal churches that have vastly underrated the power of the genuinely con- cerned ...
... individual conver- sion and become in effect another political party with only a slight religious cast , they are ... individual needs to be heard by the liberal churches that have vastly underrated the power of the genuinely con- cerned ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 3 | 26 |
Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
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