Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer PresidentAllen C. Guelzo, Henry R Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Allen C Guelzo W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999 - 516 páginas This major biography of Abraham Lincoln has won the prestigious Lincoln Prize, the annual award given to the best book in the Civil War field. Guelzo's superb work breaks new ground in exploring the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him for the first time as a serious thinker deeply involved in the struggles of nineteenth-century thought. |
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Not surprisingly , for a “ fatalist " like Lincoln , " he was perplexed and unsettled
on the fundamentals of religion , by speculative difficulties , connected with
providence and revelation . " Lincoln did not doubt that there was some form of ...
Not surprisingly , for a “ fatalist " like Lincoln , " he was perplexed and unsettled
on the fundamentals of religion , by speculative difficulties , connected with
providence and revelation . " Lincoln did not doubt that there was some form of ...
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The idea of providence pulled him to the Presbyterians , while his love for
rationality and his cautious mainstream Whiggism pulled him to Old School
Presbyterians in particular , rather than to the reformers and revivalists of the New
School ...
The idea of providence pulled him to the Presbyterians , while his love for
rationality and his cautious mainstream Whiggism pulled him to Old School
Presbyterians in particular , rather than to the reformers and revivalists of the New
School ...
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order , who acts in it , but only in the way of general Providence , who acts
towards us but only through what are called laws of Nature , who is more certain
not to act at all than to act independent of those laws ... such piety is nothing more
than ...
order , who acts in it , but only in the way of general Providence , who acts
towards us but only through what are called laws of Nature , who is more certain
not to act at all than to act independent of those laws ... such piety is nothing more
than ...
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Crítica de los usuarios - twatson79 - LibraryThingVery engaging biography on Lincoln, detailing his philosophy, religiosity, and general thought life. Guelzo does well in showing Lincoln to be a man of deep convictions as well as showing how those ... Leer comentario completo
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The Strife of Ideas | 3 |
The American System | 26 |
The Costs of Union | 64 |
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While God is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers Steven E. Woodworth,Steven E.. Woodworth Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President Library of religious biography |
| Autores | Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Allen C Guelzo |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 19 Sep. 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802838723, 9780802838728 |
| Largo | 516 páginas |
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