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Published on: 2009-11-13
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America has seen faith-based initiatives and “the audacity of hope” in twenty-first-century politics, but few participants in our political scene have invoked the other Christian virtue of charity as a guiding principle. Abraham Lincoln extolled the merit of “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” especially as a critique of the hypocrisy of slavery, but a discussion of Christian love is noticeably absent from today’s debates about religion and democracy.In this provocative book, Grant Havers argues that charity is a central tenet of what Lincoln once called America’s “political religion.” He explores the implications of making Christian love the highest moral standard for American democracy, showing how Lincoln’s legacy demands that a true democracy be charitable toward all—and that only a people who lived according to such ideals could succeed in building democracy as Lincoln understood it.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.This carefully argued work defends Lincoln’s understanding of charity as essential to democracy while emphasizing the difficulty of fusing this ethic with the desire to spread democracy to people who do not share America’s Christian heritage. In considering the prospect of America’s leaders rediscovering a moral foreign policy based on charity rather than the costly idolization of democracy, Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love makes a timely contribution to the wider debate over both the meaning of religion in American politics and the mission of America in the world—and opens a new window on Lincoln’s lasting legacy. THE CHRISTIAN AND POLITICS - The Lifehouse / Life Issues Should Christian's be involved in politics? ... No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who ... Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia Abraham Lincoln was born February 12 1809 the second child of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County ... Perspectives - OneNewsNow Donald Trump is about to become the Abraham Lincoln and the Martin Luther King Jr. of civil rights for people of faith. News Tribune Central MO Breaking News Daily paper. Local state and wire news and commentary. Photo galleries business and obituaries. Nathan Sproul Lincoln Strategy Group Nathan Sproul is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Lincoln Strategy Group. Jazz Night In America : NPR Jazz Night In America is a public radio program a video concert documentary series and a new online home for the music from NPR Music WBGO and Jazz at Lincoln Center. K-LOVE Station List - Christian Music - Crosswalk.com K-LOVE Station List - Get the latest Christian music videos news and reviews. The Christian Worldview of Mike Pence Religion & Politics Hours after Donald Trumps infamous tape was released Republicans were calling on Mike Pence to replace his running mate atop the ticket. Faced with a 2005 ... Morality and Politics - Cross Examined - Christian ... By Frank Turek. As our great country accelerates its slide into economic and moral Hell be careful whom you blame. The present boldness of liberals and timidity ... Lincoln (2012) - IMDb As the Civil War continues to rage America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the ...
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