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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... Springfield , Illinois ( 27 January 1838 ) , " in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Roy P. Basler , ed . , 9 vols . ( New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1955 ) , 1 : 112 . Hereinafter cited as Collected Works ; all ...
... Springfield , Illinois ( 27 January 1838 ) , " in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Roy P. Basler , ed . , 9 vols . ( New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1955 ) , 1 : 112 . Hereinafter cited as Collected Works ; all ...
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... Springfield Lyceum Address of 1838 , wherein he discusses the problems that mobs pose for free government , he exhorts " every American " to " swear by the blood of the Revolution , never to violate in the least particular , the laws of ...
... Springfield Lyceum Address of 1838 , wherein he discusses the problems that mobs pose for free government , he exhorts " every American " to " swear by the blood of the Revolution , never to violate in the least particular , the laws of ...
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... Springfield , which describes the threat of mob rule to " the perpetuation of our political institutions . " Lincoln attempts to solve this problem with a " political religion " that preaches " a reverence for the constitution and laws ...
... Springfield , which describes the threat of mob rule to " the perpetuation of our political institutions . " Lincoln attempts to solve this problem with a " political religion " that preaches " a reverence for the constitution and laws ...
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... Springfield , Illinois , for the White House , Lincoln remarked : " I now leave , not knowing when , or whether ever , I may return , with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington . " 38 But though Lincoln saw ...
... Springfield , Illinois , for the White House , Lincoln remarked : " I now leave , not knowing when , or whether ever , I may return , with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington . " 38 But though Lincoln saw ...
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... Springfield , Illinois ( 27 January 1838 ) , " in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Roy P. Basler , ed . , 9 vols . ( New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1955 ) , 1 : 112 . Hereinafter cited as Collected Works ; all ...
... Springfield , Illinois ( 27 January 1838 ) , " in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Roy P. Basler , ed . , 9 vols . ( New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1955 ) , 1 : 112 . Hereinafter cited as Collected Works ; all ...
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