Lincoln S Religion

Author : Stephen J. Vicchio
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781532641633

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Abraham Lincoln’s Religion by Stephen J. Vicchio Pdf

This work is a summary and analysis of Abraham Lincoln's religion. This study begins with a description of the earliest relations Mr. Lincoln had with religion, his parents' dedication to a sect known as the "Separate Baptists." By late adolescence, Lincoln began to reject his parents' faith, and he appears to have been a religious skeptic until his marriage to Mary Todd. After his marriage, he attended Protestant services with his wife and family, but there was little evidence that he was deeply religious in that time. Lincoln knew the Scriptures quite well, but it was not until the death of his two sons, Eddie in 1850 and Willie in 1862, that as the sixteenth president put it, "He became more intensely concerned with God's Plan for human kind."

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802842933

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Abraham Lincoln by Allen C. Guelzo Pdf

This biography of the sixteenth president explores Lincoln's life and political career along with insights into his philosophy, religious views, and moral character.

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781595554192

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Lincoln's Battle with God by Stephen Mansfield Pdf

Join New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield as he dives into the incredible story of Abraham Lincoln's spiritual life and draws from it a deeper meaning that's sure to inspire us all. Abraham Lincoln is, undoubtedly, among the most beloved of all U.S. presidents. He helped to abolish slavery, gave the world some of its most memorable speeches, and redefined the meaning of America. He did all of this with endless wisdom, compassion, and wit. Yet, throughout his life, Lincoln fought with God. In his early years in Illinois, he rejected even the existence of God and became the village atheist. In time, this changed but still, he wrestled with the truth of the Bible, preachers, doctrines, the will of God, the providence of God, and then, finally, God's purposes in the Civil War. Still, on the day he was shot, Lincoln said he longed to go to Jerusalem to walk in the Savior's steps. In this thrilling journey through a largely unknown part of American history, Mansfield traces Lincoln's exploring: Lincoln's lifelong spiritual journey The ways that Lincoln's faith shaped his presidency and beyond How Lincoln's struggle with faith can inspire modern believers Let Lincoln's Battle with God show you Lincoln's life and legacy in a brand new light.

Author : William J. Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:39000003778227

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Lincoln's Religion by William J. Wolf Pdf

Author : Stewart Lance Winger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0875803008

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Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics by Stewart Lance Winger Pdf

The nature of Abraham Lincoln's religious beliefs is perhaps the most perplexing enigma of his legacy. Examining the relationship between Lincoln's religious language and antebellum political culture, Winger offers a new perspective on the Great Emancipator. Lincoln's greatest speeches, Winger shows, articulate a Romantic Protestant vision of American identity and destiny. Recent considerations of Lincoln's religion have presented conflicting views of the president as either a conventional nineteenth-century evangelical or a skeptic in the tradition of Thomas Paine. Winger offers an illuminating alternative based on the connections between Lincoln's personal piety and his public performance. Exploring Lincoln's quest for the moral basis of politics, Winger shows that Lincoln's religious language reflected a poetic, Romantic understanding of faith and its political implications. A man who took ideas seriously, Lincoln conducted a decades-long dialogue with Stephen Douglas and George Bancroft about popular sovereignty and America's place in history. Although the Lincoln-Douglas debates became almost theological arguments about the ethics of slavery in a democracy, they were carried out in the context of intense party politics and personal ambition. Throughout, Lincoln expressed an intellectually grounded piety that placed his beloved Union under the judgment of both history and God. The crisis of war transformed and deepened Lincoln's religious politics, and the Second Inaugural Address reveals a Lincoln brought to humility by his powerlessness before God's commanding will. Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics presents a powerful vision of Lincoln, one that will challenge and intrigue everyone interested in this towering figure.

Author : William Henry Herndon,James Armstrong Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000002863274

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Lincoln's Religion by William Henry Herndon,James Armstrong Reed Pdf

Author : John E. Remsburg
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547311492

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Abraham Lincoln: Was He a Christian? by John E. Remsburg Pdf

Almost immediately after the remains of America's most illustrious son were laid to rest at Springfield, one of his biographers put forward the claim that he was a devout believer in Christianity. The claim was promptly denied by the dead statesman's friends, but only to be renewed again, and again denied. And thus for a quarter of a century the question of Abraham Lincoln's religious belief has been tossed like a battledoor from side to side. As a result of this controversy, thousands have become interested in a subject that otherwise might have excited but little interest. This is the writer's apology for collecting the testimony of more than one hundred witnesses, and devoting more than three hundred pages to the question, "Was Lincoln a Christian?" The writer believes that he has fully established the negative of the proposition that forms the title of his book. He does not expect to silence the claims of the affirmative; but he has furnished an arsenal of facts whereby these claims may be exposed and refuted as often as made. This effort to prove that Lincoln was not a Christian will be condemned by many as an attempt to fasten a stain upon this great man's character. But the demonstration and perpetuation of this fact will only add to his greatness. It will show that he was in advance of his generation. The fame of Abraham Lincoln belongs not to this age alone, but will endure for all time.

Author : Madison Clinton Peters
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:4064066141448

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Abraham Lincoln's Religion by Madison Clinton Peters Pdf

By Madison Clinton Peters: Explore the spiritual beliefs and religious convictions of one of America's most revered presidents, Abraham Lincoln. Peters delves deep into Lincoln's personal faith journey, offering insights into how his beliefs shaped his leadership and decisions during tumultuous times.

Author : Michael Burkhimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 1594162433

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Lincoln's Christianity by Michael Burkhimer Pdf

Depicts the role of religion in Abraham Lincoln's presidency, particularly the role of extreme losses in his life and how the use of religious texts in his speeches and debates led to controversy throughout his presidency.

Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226482071

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Holy Terrors, Second Edition by Bruce Lincoln Pdf

It is tempting to regard the perpetrators of the September 11th terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln’s acclaimed Holy Terrors makes clear, were profoundly and intensely religious. Thus what we need after the events of 9/11, Lincoln argues, is greater clarity about what we take religion to be. Holy Terrors begins with a gripping dissection of the instruction manual given to each of the 9/11 hijackers. In their evocation of passages from the Quran, we learn how the terrorists justified acts of destruction and mass murder “in the name of God, the most merciful, the most compassionate.” Lincoln then offers a provocative comparison of President Bush’s October 7, 2001 speech announcing U.S. military action in Afghanistan alongside the videotaped speech released by Osama bin Laden just a few hours later. As Lincoln authoritatively demonstrates, a close analysis of the rhetoric used by leaders as different as George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden—as well as Mohamed Atta and even Jerry Falwell—betrays startling similarities. These commonalities have considerable implications for our understanding of religion and its interrelationships with politics and culture in a postcolonial world, implications that Lincoln draws out with skill and sensitivity. With a chapter new to this edition, “Theses on Religion and Violence,” Holy Terrors remains one of the essential books on September 11 and a classic study on the character of religion. “Modernity has ended twice: in its Marxist form in 1989 Berlin, and in its liberal form on September 11, 2001. In order to understand such major historical changes we need both large-scale and focused analyses—a combination seldom to be found in one volume. But here Bruce Lincoln . . . has given us just such a mix of discrete and large-picture analysis.”—Stephen Healey, Christian Century “From time to time there appears a work . . . that serves to focus the wide-ranging, often contentious discussion of religion’s significance within broader cultural dynamics. Bruce Lincoln’s Holy Terrors is one such text. . . . Anyone still struggling toward a more nuanced comprehension of 9/11 would do well to spend time with this book.”—Theodore Pulcini, Middle East Journal

Author : Philip L. Ostergard
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781414366678

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The Inspired Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln by Philip L. Ostergard Pdf

Not long after Lincoln's assassination, the debate began: Was Lincoln a committed Christian or a confirmed skeptic? Scholar Philip Ostergard provides the answer with a thorough study of the president's references to God, the Bible, and Christian principles in his letters and speeches. The Inspired Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln illustrates the depth of Lincoln's knowledge of Scripture; the Bible's influence on his character; and the development of his faith, particularly as he wrestled with the issue of slavery and led the nation through the tumultuous years of the Civil War. Readers will find this a fascinating and inspiring handbook of answers to the questions about one of our greatest presidents.

Author : Lucas E. Morel
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739157206

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Lincoln's Sacred Effort by Lucas E. Morel Pdf

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.

Author : Glen E. Thurow
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0873953347

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Abraham Lincoln and American Political Religion by Glen E. Thurow Pdf

Lincoln's major public speeches are examined in this analysis of his attempt to create a political religion through his language of intense religious feeling.

Author : William Henry Herndon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070609612

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Lincoln's Religion by William Henry Herndon Pdf

Author : Daniel Cravens Taylor
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1484175271

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Not a Technical Christian by Daniel Cravens Taylor Pdf

Does the world really need another book on Abraham Lincoln? Probably not, but as long as a majority of Americans consider him to be America's greatest president and the enigma and charisma of his personality continues to draw interest, there will be other books - including this one. Will there be anything new in these additional works? Frankly, it will be hard to find something unknown about Lincoln. His story and his history have been hashed and rehashed to the point that authors are hard pressed to find anything new to give to scholars and buffs. The facts of Lincoln's life will not change and there are not many new historical sources coming to light with new information to tantalize and entice. So what does this work offer that has not been said or written before? Maybe not all that much and maybe a lot. There continues to be great disagreement regarding Lincoln's religious nature or his lack thereof. He has been painted as a closet atheist freethinker and as a closet Christian along with almost everything in between. Many words have been written with the goal of presenting the truth about Lincoln's religion. Many, if not most of those works, have started with the conclusion they wanted to be true (or thought might sell more books) and gone on to prove it. That is where this work will attempt to be different. This work on Lincoln is set with one goal, to look at the various thoughts and suppositions and theories about Lincoln's religious beliefs and to weigh them against what he said and did in order to let Lincoln speak about his religion rather than letting others with an agenda pigeon-hole him into theirs. And, naturally, this work will be thought a pigeon-holing by those who already have their pigeon hole and this work does not end up in the same hole.