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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... Gettysburg Address or the Second Inaugural Address without their 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 ...
... Gettysburg Address or the Second Inaugural Address without their 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 ...
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... Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural Address : at Gettysburg Lincoln charges the American people to continue the fight for the self - government of all , while at his second inauguration he acknowledges the failure of human ...
... Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural Address : at Gettysburg Lincoln charges the American people to continue the fight for the self - government of all , while at his second inauguration he acknowledges the failure of human ...
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... Address . Instead , political religion assumes its customary millennial definition— what Bellah calls the " national ... Gettysburg Address . He infers that although Lincoln did not doubt the truth of human equality , preservation of the ...
... Address . Instead , political religion assumes its customary millennial definition— what Bellah calls the " national ... Gettysburg Address . He infers that although Lincoln did not doubt the truth of human equality , preservation of the ...
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... Gettysburg , " in Abraham Lincoln , the Gettysburg Address , and American Constitutionalism , Leo Paul S. de Alvarez , ed . ( Irving , Tex .: University of Dallas Press , 1976 ) , esp . 123-25 . 29. Harry V. Jaffa , Crisis of the House ...
... Gettysburg , " in Abraham Lincoln , the Gettysburg Address , and American Constitutionalism , Leo Paul S. de Alvarez , ed . ( Irving , Tex .: University of Dallas Press , 1976 ) , esp . 123-25 . 29. Harry V. Jaffa , Crisis of the House ...
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... Gettysburg Address ( 1863 ) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address stands out as his most famous appeal to the nation's revealed religion to invigorate the nation's civil religion . As Garry Wills observes in his thoroughgoing treatment of the ...
... Gettysburg Address ( 1863 ) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address stands out as his most famous appeal to the nation's revealed religion to invigorate the nation's civil religion . As Garry Wills observes in his thoroughgoing treatment of the ...
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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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