Abraham Lincoln : the Christian
Author | : William Jackson Johnstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Jackson Johnstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Allen C. Guelzo |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802842930 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 159555419X |
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 | : John B. Remsburg |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465518940 |
Author | : Mark A. Noll |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 2002-10-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199882231 |
Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America's God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new American ethos. In the 125 years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, theology played an extraordinarily important role in American public and private life. Its evolution had a profound impact on America's self-definition. The changes taking place in American theology during this period were marked by heightened spiritual inwardness, a new confidence in individual reason, and an attentiveness to the economic and market realities of Western life. Vividly set in the social and political events of the age, America's God is replete with the figures who made up the early American intellectual landscape, from theologians such as Jonathan Edwards, Nathaniel W. Taylor, William Ellery Channing, and Charles Hodge and religiously inspired writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Stowe to dominant political leaders of the day like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. The contributions of these thinkers combined with the religious revival of the 1740s, colonial warfare with France, the consuming struggle for independence, and the rise of evangelical Protestantism to form a common intellectual coinage based on a rising republicanism and commonsense principles. As this Christian republicanism affirmed itself, it imbued in dedicated Christians a conviction that the Bible supported their beliefs over those of all others. Tragically, this sense of religious purpose set the stage for the Civil War, as the conviction of Christians both North and South that God was on their side served to deepen a schism that would soon rend the young nation asunder. Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology the legacies of which remain with us to this day.
Author | : Michael Burkhimer |
Publisher | : Westholme Publishing |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The Changing Role of Faith in the Life of the Sixteenth President of the United States How do we reconcile the young religious skeptic with the mature president who so profoundly invested the Civil War with religious significance? Lincoln s religious views difficult to recover, interpret, and disentangle from past and present biases are the subject of this brief survey. "Journal of American History" Michael Burkhimer examines the history of the president s interaction with religion accounts from those who knew him, his own letters and writings, the books he read to reveal a man who did not believe in orthodox Christian precepts (and might have had a hard time getting elected today) yet, by his example, was a person and president who most truly embodied Christian teachings."
Author | : John Eleazer Remsburg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Elton Trueblood |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 006226432X |
Many writers have explored Lincoln's leadership; others have debated Lincoln's ambiguous religious identity. But in this classic work, Christian philosopher and statesman Elton Trueblood reveals how Lincoln's leadership skills flowed directly from his religious convictions—which explains how the president was able to combine what few leaders can hold together: moral resoluteness with a shrewd ability to compromise; confidence in his cause while refusing to succumb to the traps of self-righteousness or triumphalism; and a commitment to victory while never losing sight of his responsibility for—or the humanity of—his enemy. These rich meditations offer deep wisdom and insight on one of the most effective leaders of all time.
Author | : Grant N. Havers |
Publisher | : University of Missouri |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2009-11-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Havers argues that it is simplistic to conflate Lincoln's invocation of "with charity for all" with his abiding support for the ideal of human equality. The ethic of charity in his view also brought a uniquely Christian realism to the universalism of democracy. He also describes how, since World War I, intellectuals and political leaders have denied that there exists a necessary relation between democracy and Christian love, proposing that democracy is sufficiently ethical without reliance on a specific religious tradition. Today's neoconservatives and liberals instead posit a universal yearning for democracy that requires no foundation in the ethic of charity. Havers shows that this democratic universalism, espoused by those who believe a "chosen people" should uphold the natural rights of humanity, is alien to the sober thought of both the founders and Lincoln.".
Author | : John Wesley Hill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |