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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... God . " What Lincoln offers is not so much a solution to what reason and religion failed to solve - what the nation as a whole was unable to solve - but rather our communal inability to discover a ready solution , and hence a call to ...
... God . " What Lincoln offers is not so much a solution to what reason and religion failed to solve - what the nation as a whole was unable to solve - but rather our communal inability to discover a ready solution , and hence a call to ...
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... God agreeably to their consciences , is not only among the choicest of their blessings , but also of their rights ... God ? " George Washington closed his Circular Address of 1783 with a gloss on this verse : " I now make it my earnest ...
... God agreeably to their consciences , is not only among the choicest of their blessings , but also of their rights ... God ? " George Washington closed his Circular Address of 1783 with a gloss on this verse : " I now make it my earnest ...
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... God's concern for man's " greater happiness hereafter . " Thus Providence manifests a concern for man's ultimate happiness through religion , and Jefferson credits religion for its highest calling - preparing men and women for the city of ...
... God's concern for man's " greater happiness hereafter . " Thus Providence manifests a concern for man's ultimate happiness through religion , and Jefferson credits religion for its highest calling - preparing men and women for the city of ...
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... God ? Christian Faith and Political Action in America ( 1988 ) ; and Richard V. Pierard and Robert D. Linder , Civil Religion and the Presidency ( 1988 ) . Barton examines the various claims of those who knew Lincoln as to his religious ...
... God ? Christian Faith and Political Action in America ( 1988 ) ; and Richard V. Pierard and Robert D. Linder , Civil Religion and the Presidency ( 1988 ) . Barton examines the various claims of those who knew Lincoln as to his religious ...
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... God's pattern for the rest of the world " — but their expression of this belief becomes " less overtly theological " during times of relative calm.24 " But when wartime calls for sacrifice , " Wills continues , " American duty becomes ...
... God's pattern for the rest of the world " — but their expression of this belief becomes " less overtly theological " during times of relative calm.24 " But when wartime calls for sacrifice , " Wills continues , " American duty becomes ...
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