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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... John Brown University and the Pew Charitable Trusts for a 1997 summer research grant to revise the book manuscript . JBU was my teaching home from 1994-1999 , and I am especially appreciative of Professors Ed Ericson III and David ...
... John Brown University and the Pew Charitable Trusts for a 1997 summer research grant to revise the book manuscript . JBU was my teaching home from 1994-1999 , and I am especially appreciative of Professors Ed Ericson III and David ...
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... John Brown University and the Pew Charitable Trusts for a 1997 summer research grant to revise the book manuscript. JBU was my teaching home from 1994-1999, and I am especially appreciative of Professors Ed Ericson III and David Johnson ...
... John Brown University and the Pew Charitable Trusts for a 1997 summer research grant to revise the book manuscript. JBU was my teaching home from 1994-1999, and I am especially appreciative of Professors Ed Ericson III and David Johnson ...
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... John G. West , Jr. , The Politics of Revelation and Reason : Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation ( Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 1996 ) . West shows that some evangelical reform movements - in particular , those ...
... John G. West , Jr. , The Politics of Revelation and Reason : Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation ( Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 1996 ) . West shows that some evangelical reform movements - in particular , those ...
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... John Brown of Harpers Ferry infamy . We begin by asking , where does Lincoln find political legitimacy in a community guided by truths both political and religious , truths assented to by one's reason and faith ? Lincoln views the ...
... John Brown of Harpers Ferry infamy . We begin by asking , where does Lincoln find political legitimacy in a community guided by truths both political and religious , truths assented to by one's reason and faith ? Lincoln views the ...
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... John Courtney Murray put it : " The American Proposition is at once doctrinal and practical , a theorem and a problem . It is an affirmation and also an intention . It presents itself as a coherent structure of thought that lays claim ...
... John Courtney Murray put it : " The American Proposition is at once doctrinal and practical , a theorem and a problem . It is an affirmation and also an intention . It presents itself as a coherent structure of thought that lays claim ...
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