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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... president . Thurow invests great interpretive capital in Lincoln's use of the term proposition in his Gettysburg Address . He infers that although Lincoln did not doubt the truth of human equality , preservation of the regime required a ...
... president . Thurow invests great interpretive capital in Lincoln's use of the term proposition in his Gettysburg Address . He infers that although Lincoln did not doubt the truth of human equality , preservation of the regime required a ...
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... President : Last Full Measure ( New York : Dodd , Mead & Company , Inc. , 1955 ) , the final volume of Randall's biography of Lincoln , is a good example . See especially chap . 16 , " God's Man , " 365-79 . 21. Elton Trueblood's ...
... President : Last Full Measure ( New York : Dodd , Mead & Company , Inc. , 1955 ) , the final volume of Randall's biography of Lincoln , is a good example . See especially chap . 16 , " God's Man , " 365-79 . 21. Elton Trueblood's ...
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... president in 1836 against Van Buren , the incumbent vice president under the retiring Andrew Jackson . Given the stark partisan differences between Lincoln and Van Buren , one can only surmise that Lincoln used his appearance before the ...
... president in 1836 against Van Buren , the incumbent vice president under the retiring Andrew Jackson . Given the stark partisan differences between Lincoln and Van Buren , one can only surmise that Lincoln used his appearance before the ...
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... president . 16 In contrast Lincoln points out that the direct effects of vigilantes may be a " small evil , " but the indirect or long - term consequences pose the great threat to perpetuating the American regime . Upon reading Van ...
... president . 16 In contrast Lincoln points out that the direct effects of vigilantes may be a " small evil , " but the indirect or long - term consequences pose the great threat to perpetuating the American regime . Upon reading Van ...
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... president , 22 Van Buren states : " the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it ...
... president , 22 Van Buren states : " the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it ...
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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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