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| Genre/Form: | History |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Morel, Lucas E., 1964- Lincoln's sacred effort. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2000 (OCoLC)607379221 Online version: Morel, Lucas E., 1964- Lincoln's sacred effort. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2000 (OCoLC)607776677 |
| Named Person: | Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lucas E Morel |
| ISBN: | 0739101056 9780739101056 0739101064 9780739101063 |
| OCLC Number: | 42882965 |
| Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Claremont Graduate School. |
| Description: | 251 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 1. Religious Politics and Political Religion -- Ch. 2. The Political Utility of Religion -- Ch. 3. The Political Accommodation of Religion -- Ch. 4. The Political Vices of Religion: An Interpretation of the Temperance Address -- Ch. 5. The Political Limits of Reason and Religion: An Interpretation of the Second Inaugural Address -- Index to Lincoln's Speeches and Writings. |
| Series Title: | Applications of political theory. |
| Responsibility: | Lucas E. Morel. |
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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 Read more...
