Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America--Winthrop, Jefferson, and LincolnGeorgetown University Press, 4. 10. 2007 - Počet stran: 336 Notions of Christian love, or charity, strongly shaped the political thought of John Winthrop, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln as each presided over a foundational moment in the development of American democracy. Matthew Holland examines how each figure interpreted and appropriated charity, revealing both the problems and possibilities of making it a political ideal. Holland first looks at early American literature and seminal speeches by Winthrop to show how the Puritan theology of this famed 17th century governor of the Massachusetts Colony (he who first envisioned America as a "City upon a Hill") galvanized an impressive sense of self-rule and a community of care in the early republic, even as its harsher aspects made something like Jefferson's Enlightenment faith in liberal democracy a welcome development . Holland then shows that between Jefferson's early rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and his First Inaugural Jefferson came to see some notion of charity as a necessary complement to modern political liberty. However, Holland argues, it was Lincoln and his ingenious blend of Puritan and democratic insights who best fulfilled the promise of this nation's "bonds of affection." With his recognition of the imperfections of both North and South, his humility in the face of God's judgment on the Civil War, and his insistence on "charity for all," including the defeated Confederacy, Lincoln personified the possibilities of religious love turned civic virtue. Weaving a rich tapestry of insights from political science and literature and American religious history and political theory, Bonds of Affection is a major contribution to the study of American political identity. Matthew Holland makes plain that civic charity, while commonly rejected as irrelevant or even harmful to political engagement, has been integral to our national character. The book includes the full texts of Winthrop's speech "A Model of Christian Charity"; Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration and his First Inaugural; and Lincoln's Second Inaugural. |
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... Inaugural 283 Appendix D Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural 289 Bibliography Index 291 309 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS did not know it at the time , but viii CONTENTS.
... Inaugural . And David Hall at Harvard's Divinity School , Peter Onuf at the University of Virginia's history department , and Bryon Andreason at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum all deserve some particular note of ...
... inaugural address fairly riveted by his message , " We are all republi- cans , we are all federalists , " Jefferson famously exclaimed . More signifi- cantly , he declared that fostering " affection " between citizens of all parties was ...
... Inaugural Address . As he did so , a broad ray of sunlight punched through the cloud line . Chief Justice Chase saw it as " an auspicious omen of the dispersion of the clouds of war and the restoration of the clear sun light of prosper ...
... Inaugural especially . At a minimum , some such concept appears vital to past , and possibly present , attempts to forge the " bonds of affection " that Winthrop , Jefferson , and Lincoln considered an integral component of ongoing ...
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Jefferson and the Founding | 91 |
1776The Other Declaration | 93 |
A Model of Natural Liberty | 97 |
Hail Fall of Fury Reign of Reason All Hail | 169 |
This Nation Under God | 200 |
A Model of Civic Charity | 219 |
Bonds of Freedom | 241 |
John Winthrops A Model of Christian Charity Speech | 261 |
Thomas Jeffersons original Rough draught of the Declaration of Independence | 277 |
Thomas Jeffersons First Inaugural | 283 |
Abraham Lincolns Second Inaugural | 289 |
To Close the Circle of Our Felicities | 128 |
Lincoln and the Refounding of America | 159 |
From Tom to Abe | 161 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 291 |
INDEX | 309 |
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