03488nam 2200589 450 991045239980332120200520144314.01-4985-2108-80-7391-7357-X(CKB)2550000001114479(EBL)1367840(OCoLC)857769527(SSID)ssj0000983610(PQKBManifestationID)12423428(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983610(PQKBWorkID)11010929(PQKB)11742186(MiAaPQ)EBC1367840(Au-PeEL)EBL1367840(CaPaEBR)ebr10757434(CaONFJC)MIL514331(EXLCZ)99255000000111447920130708h20132013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution /George AnastaploLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,[2013]©20131 online resource (355 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-7356-1 1-299-83080-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Euripides on the use and abuse of revelation in the service of the political order -- The divine, an unsettling duality, and the conduct of one's life : Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos revisited -- On Aristophanes' Clouds -- Socrates' dangerous piety -- Plato on the divine in human affairs -- Maimonides and others on faith, philosophy, and governing principles -- Conscience and citizenship -- El Greco and his successors -- Miguel de Cervantes on death, the divine, and the proper ordering of human affairs -- Thomas Hobbes on church and state -- John Milton's Paradise epics and the divinely-ordained redemption of the human race -- Challenges posed by the Aztecs -- The Holocaust and the divine ordering of human affairs -- Nature and the divine in the declaration of independence -- Benedict Arnold, providence, and the fates of citizens and of nations -- Benjamin Franklin and the workings of the divine at least in America -- "In the year of [what] lord?" -- Political symbols and the sacred in the United States -- Thomas Jefferson and religious liberty -- Abraham Lincoln and the Almighty -- Presidential invocations of the divine -- Presidential farewell addresses -- Revelation, human understanding, and the ordering of the good life : the "Mormon" movement -- Revelation and the use of the United States postal system : the "I am" movement -- An earth elsewhere? -- Yearnings for the divine and the natural animation of matter.Connections are suggested among diverse subjects which can remind the reader both of fundamental issues with respect to religion and politics and of the complications of efforts to develop public-policy measures dealing with church/state issues, constitutional applications, and the understanding in the modern world of Life and Death.Religion and stateReligion and stateUnited StatesElectronic books.Religion and state.Religion and state322/.1Anastaplo George1925-857079MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452399803321Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution1913896UNINA