Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government
Lucas E. Morel, Washington and Lee University, and author of Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role...
Lincoln’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government
Lucas E. Morel, Washington and Lee University, and author of Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role...
In this text, Lucas Morel examines what the public life of Abraham Lincoln teaches about the role of religion in a self-governing society. Lincon’s understanding of the requirements of republican government led him to accommodate and direct religios sentiment toward responsioble 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.
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