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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... institutions . " Lincoln attempts to solve this problem with a " political religion " that preaches " a reverence ... institutions and to their moral basis in the individual men who must make those institutions work . " Gleaning from ...
... institutions . " Lincoln attempts to solve this problem with a " political religion " that preaches " a reverence ... institutions and to their moral basis in the individual men who must make those institutions work . " Gleaning from ...
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... institutions upon this equality . The difficulty arose , according to Thurow , when the evidence of the truth of human equality to every American self waned as the antebellum period closed . The axiomatic " truth " for the body politic ...
... institutions upon this equality . The difficulty arose , according to Thurow , when the evidence of the truth of human equality to every American self waned as the antebellum period closed . The axiomatic " truth " for the body politic ...
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... Institutions , " Lincoln refers to the equality principle as " a proposition . " However , there he states that the American Founders " aspired to display before an admiring world , a practical demonstration of the truth of a ...
... Institutions , " Lincoln refers to the equality principle as " a proposition . " However , there he states that the American Founders " aspired to display before an admiring world , a practical demonstration of the truth of a ...
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... Institutions , " the address focused on the preservation of American self - government in light of the increasing threat that vigilante justice carried out by mobs posed to constitutional government . Illinois state historian Thomas F ...
... Institutions , " the address focused on the preservation of American self - government in light of the increasing threat that vigilante justice carried out by mobs posed to constitutional government . Illinois state historian Thomas F ...
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... institutions depends upon ourselves . " Reflecting on the " success that has attended our great experiment , ” Van Buren rests hopeful that " if we maintain the principles on which they [ ' our institutions ' ] were established they are ...
... institutions depends upon ourselves . " Reflecting on the " success that has attended our great experiment , ” Van Buren rests hopeful that " if we maintain the principles on which they [ ' our institutions ' ] were established they are ...
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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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22 February abolitionist Abraham Lincoln Address 22 February Address 4 March Almighty American Founding American Political Religion American regime American self-government Annual Message appeal believe Bible biblical Buren called cause chaplains Christian church citizenry citizens civil religion Claremont Institute Collected concludes Declaration of Independence divine Douglas drunkards Emancipation Proclamation Emphasis added evil faith federal freedom Gettysburg Address God's hope Illinois 27 January Inaugural Address-Final Text institutions insurgents Jaffa Jefferson John Joshua F judgment July justice law-abidingness laws letter Lincoln's political Lyceum Address Lyceum of Springfield Message to Congress moral nation paragraph passion peace perpetuation political religion prayer Presbyterian president principle reason reference Republican reverence rhetoric Second Inaugural Address slavery slaves South southern speech Springfield Temperance Address 22 temperance movement temperance reform Text 4 March thanksgiving Thurow truth U.S. Constitution Union United University Press unto vols Washingtonians William William Lloyd Garrison York Young Men's Lyceum