Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution / / George Anastaplo
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| Autore: |
Anastaplo George <1925->
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| Titolo: |
Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution / / George Anastaplo
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 322/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Religion and state |
| Religion and state - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution |
| ISBN: | 1-4985-2108-8 |
| 0-7391-7357-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826739603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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