Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Anastaplo, George, 1925- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books cop. 2013
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.