عنوان

Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

Eng

Title Proper

Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lanham, Md

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Lexington Books

Text of Note

Includes index

Text of Note

George Anastaplo

Text of Note

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

Entry Element

، Religion and state

Entry Element

، Religion and state -- United States

Class number

Dates

5291-

Entry Element

Anastaplo, George

Relator Code

AU

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