Lincoln's Sacred Effort

Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government

Lincoln's Sacred Effort

Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government

Lucas E. Morel (Author)

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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.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Religious Politics and Political Religion
Chapter 3 The Political Utility of Religion
Chapter 4 The Political Accommodation of Religion
Chapter 5 The Political Vices of Religion: An Interpretation of the Temperance Address
Chapter 6 The Political Limits of Reason and Religion: An Interpretation of the Second Inaugural Address

Product details

Published	Jan 19 2000
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	264
ISBN	9780739157206
Imprint	Lexington Books
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Lucas E. Morel

Morel has produced a solid, useful addition to the Lincoln literature.

Professor Michael Burlingame, Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois-Springfield and author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life, North Carolina Historical Review
Morel's work draws considerably-as he acknowledges-from Crisis of the House Divided, my book on the Lincoln-Douglas debates published forty years ago, especially from the chapters on the Lyceum and Temperance speeches. However, Morel gives a thoroughly fresh reading of those speeches, and discovers in them dozens of biblical references, allusions, and paraphrases that I had not noticed or identified. In addition, he locates these texts within the framework of church history and church controversycontemporaneous with Lincoln. How Lincoln negotiated his way amidst sectarian differences, enlisting religious dispositions for non-sectarian political ends, especially in his Second Inaugural, is described with great sensitivity and great precision.I can say candidly that I learned a great deal from reading this book..

Harry V. Jaffa, Philosophy Emeritus, Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School
Morel's work draws considerably-as he acknowledges-from Crisis of the House Divided, my book on the Lincoln-Douglas debates published forty years ago, especially from the chapters on the Lyceum and Temperance speeches. However, Morel gives a thoroughly fresh reading of those speeches, and discovers in them dozens of biblical references, allusions, and paraphrases that I had not noticed or identified. In addition, he locates these texts within the framework of church history and church controversy contemporaneous with Lincoln. How Lincoln negotiated his way amidst sectarian differences, enlisting religious dispositions for non-sectarian political ends, especially in his Second Inaugural, is described with great sensitivity and great precision. I can say candidly that I learned a great deal from reading this book.

Harry V. Jaffa, Philosophy Emeritus, Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School