Lincoln's sacred effort : defining religion's role in American self-government
Lucas 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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1 online resource (251 p.).
9780739157206, 0739157205
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Print version:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Religious Politics and Political Religion; Chapter 2 The Political Utility of Religion; Chapter 3 The Political Accommodation of Religion; Chapter 4 The Political Vices of Religion: An Interpretation of the Temperance Address; Chapter 5 The Political Limits of Reason and Religion: An Interpretation of the Second Inaugural Address; Bibliography; Index to Lincoln's Speeches and Writings; General Index; About the Author
Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Claremont Graduate School
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010