Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution / / George Anastaplo.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lanham, Maryland : : Lexington Books,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (355 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.