Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-governmentLexington Books, 2000 - 251 sidor 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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... republican government led him to direct religious sentiment toward responsible democracy or self - government . As a successful republic requires a moral or self - controlled people , he believed the moral and religious impulse of ...
... republican government led him to direct religious sentiment toward responsible democracy or self - government . As a successful republic requires a moral or self - controlled people , he believed the moral and religious impulse of ...
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... republican government , one would be hard - pressed to understand him to be " the theologian of American anguish . " 3 True , in his Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Addresses , he drew upon the religious sentiments of the American ...
... republican government , one would be hard - pressed to understand him to be " the theologian of American anguish . " 3 True , in his Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Addresses , he drew upon the religious sentiments of the American ...
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... republican humility is consistent with the demeanor of religious folks as they seek , in the words of an Old Testament prophet , " to walk humbly with thy God . " What Lincoln offers is not so much a solution to what reason and religion ...
... republican humility is consistent with the demeanor of religious folks as they seek , in the words of an Old Testament prophet , " to walk humbly with thy God . " What Lincoln offers is not so much a solution to what reason and religion ...
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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 |
223 | |
Index to Lincolns Speeches and Writings | 233 |
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About the Author | |
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