Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-governmentLexington Books, 2000 - 251 pages 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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Defining Religion's Role in American Self-government Lucas E. Morel. APPLICATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY Series Editors : Harvey Mansfield , Harvard University , and Daniel J. Mahoney , Assumption College This series encourages analysis of ...
Defining Religion's Role in American Self-government Lucas E. Morel. APPLICATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY Series Editors : Harvey Mansfield , Harvard University , and Daniel J. Mahoney , Assumption College This series encourages analysis of ...
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... people , for perpetuating the object of that great struggle . Lincoln's address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton February 21 , 1861 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Religious Politics and Political Religion.
... people , for perpetuating the object of that great struggle . Lincoln's address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton February 21 , 1861 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Religious Politics and Political Religion.
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Defining Religion's Role in American Self-government Lucas E. Morel. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Religious Politics and Political Religion Chapter 2 The Political Utility of Religion Chapter 3 The Political Accommodation ...
Defining Religion's Role in American Self-government Lucas E. Morel. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Religious Politics and Political Religion Chapter 2 The Political Utility of Religion Chapter 3 The Political Accommodation ...
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... religion in a self - governing society . Because a statesman must consider not only the good of the citizenry but ... political acumen had as much to do with understanding where his countrymen then stood with regard to political right as ...
... religion in a self - governing society . Because a statesman must consider not only the good of the citizenry but ... political acumen had as much to do with understanding where his countrymen then stood with regard to political right as ...
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... political religion of the nation . " 2 Lincoln believed that the perpetuation of the free government established by the American Revolution depended on this patriotic law - abidingness and called on both politician and preacher to ...
... political religion of the nation . " 2 Lincoln believed that the perpetuation of the free government established by the American Revolution depended on this patriotic law - abidingness and called on both politician and preacher to ...
Contents
Religious Politics and Political Religion | 7 |
The Political Utility of Religion | 23 |
The Political Accommodation of Religion | 85 |
The Political Vices of Religion An Interpretation of the Temperance Address | 125 |
The Political Limits of Reason and Religion An Interpretation of the Second Inaugural Address | 163 |
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Index to Lincolns Speeches and Writings | 233 |
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