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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... biblical allusions and cadences . To do so would be to strip those timeless documents of their most memorable phrases , if not their most telling reflections on American self - government . This book examines what the public life of ...
... biblical allusions and cadences . To do so would be to strip those timeless documents of their most memorable phrases , if not their most telling reflections on American self - government . This book examines what the public life of ...
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... biblical metaphor or allusion , his speeches and writings never refer to " civil religion . " He did use the phrase " political religion " once , but it has almost nothing to do with civil or revealed religion . In his Springfield ...
... biblical metaphor or allusion , his speeches and writings never refer to " civil religion . " He did use the phrase " political religion " once , but it has almost nothing to do with civil or revealed religion . In his Springfield ...
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... biblical language served to appease a citizenry excessively prone to religious zealotry at times of national crisis . Commenting on Julia Ward Howe's apocalyptic anthem " The Battle - Hymn of the Republic , " he writes : " War fever ...
... biblical language served to appease a citizenry excessively prone to religious zealotry at times of national crisis . Commenting on Julia Ward Howe's apocalyptic anthem " The Battle - Hymn of the Republic , " he writes : " War fever ...
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... Biblical tradition to the work of the Founders ) for the country's future defense and support . " " 37 The reason or prudence of Lincoln molds the Christian sentiment of the American people into a civil religion that aims to reunite the ...
... Biblical tradition to the work of the Founders ) for the country's future defense and support . " " 37 The reason or prudence of Lincoln molds the Christian sentiment of the American people into a civil religion that aims to reunite the ...
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... biblical crises . " Wills , Under God , 209 . 26. Cf. Cousins , In God We Trust . 27. Randall , Lincoln : The Liberal Statesman , 200 . 28. Randall , Lincoln : The Liberal Statesman , 201. George Anastaplo offers a similar observation ...
... biblical crises . " Wills , Under God , 209 . 26. Cf. Cousins , In God We Trust . 27. Randall , Lincoln : The Liberal Statesman , 200 . 28. Randall , Lincoln : The Liberal Statesman , 201. George Anastaplo offers a similar observation ...
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Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-government Lucas E. Morel No preview available - 2000 |
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