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"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.".
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Politics and government, Political culture, Oratory, Political aspects of Romanticism, Romanticism, Political and social views, Religion and politics, American National characteristics, Views on religion, History, Kulturpolitik, Religion, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, Political aspectsPeople
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Lincoln, religion, and romantic cultural politics
2003, Northern Illinois University Press
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0875803008 9780875803005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-257) and index.
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