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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... poor . But these things are only certain particular branches , or fruits of that great virtue of charity which is so much insisted on throughout the New Testament . The word properly signifies love , or that disposition or affection ...
... poor , some high and eminent in power and dignity , others mean and in subjection . ( 1 ) 3 To a contemporary audience weaned on that most sacrosanct verse in all of the American political canon , namely that " all men are created equal ...
... poor " and " despised " must not " rise up against their superiors , " it also means the " rich " and " mighty " must " not eat up the poor " ( ¶3 ) . Third , and perhaps most significantly , God establishes these inequalities so that ...
... poor do not necessarily merit their own poverty , they remain an integral part of the community and have a certain moral claim upon the attentive assistance of the rich , whose wealth comes in similarly unmerited fashion . This hardly ...
... poor even as recognition of a providential , earthly hierarchy restrains more radical attempts to establish ... poor played prominently in his earliest political activity . And criti- cal among his stated reasons for finally leaving ...
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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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