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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... requires a moral or self - controlled people , he believed the moral and religious impulse of society should be nurtured . Both helped to moderate the excesses of passion and self - interest in the community . As Introduction.
... requires a moral or self - controlled people , he believed the moral and religious impulse of society should be nurtured . Both helped to moderate the excesses of passion and self - interest in the community . As Introduction.
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Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government Lucas E. Morel. passion and self - interest in the community ... passions of the people , but recognized that revealed religion had a claim on the souls of the citizenry wholly apart ...
Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government Lucas E. Morel. passion and self - interest in the community ... passions of the people , but recognized that revealed religion had a claim on the souls of the citizenry wholly apart ...
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... on morality in general as Lincoln's aim for a self - controlled people , whose passion for justice and moral reform become moderated by a general 30 morality inculcated by respect for the Constitution and the laws- 14 Chapter One.
... on morality in general as Lincoln's aim for a self - controlled people , whose passion for justice and moral reform become moderated by a general 30 morality inculcated by respect for the Constitution and the laws- 14 Chapter One.
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... passions , or whether he saw the need for government to accommodate religion for its own sake . Glen E. Thurow's Abraham Lincoln and American Political Religion ( 1976 ) explores the topic of political religion from an understanding ...
... passions , or whether he saw the need for government to accommodate religion for its own sake . Glen E. Thurow's Abraham Lincoln and American Political Religion ( 1976 ) explores the topic of political religion from an understanding ...
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... passions rather than the reason of a community in a protest resolution he co- authored in the Illinois House of ... passion exhibited by state representatives who wished to investigate the State Bank at Springfield " without legal ...
... passions rather than the reason of a community in a protest resolution he co- authored in the Illinois House of ... passion exhibited by state representatives who wished to investigate the State Bank at Springfield " without legal ...
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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