Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America--Winthrop, Jefferson, and LincolnGeorgetown University Press, 2007 M10 4 - 336 páginas 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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... Quoted in Donald , Lincoln , 566 . 6. The topic of Christianity's general influence on the American founding has , of course , received considerable scholarly treatment . For notable recent contribu- tions that together provide an ...
... quoting verbatim Leviticus 19.18 and echoing — perhaps knowingly the teachings of Hillel , the great first - century Ce Jewish scholar who taught that all of Judaism could be summed up in the love commandment of Leviti- cus 19:18 ; see ...
... quoted in the prologue , says much the same thing in Charity and Its Fruits : Love will show that it disposes men to all duties toward their neigh- bors . If men have a sincere love to neighbors , it will dispose them to all acts of ...
... quoted seem to lean in that direction . But others stress that the famous agape commands of Matthew 22 involve loving three distinct par- ties : God , neighbor , and self ( the instruction to love thy neighbor as thy- self is echoed ...
... quoted in Rutman , Winthrop's Decision for America , 56 . 6. " Wilderness " statement as quoted in Miller , New England Mind , 422. On the perils of introducing new orders , see Machiavelli , The Prince , 23 ; and Morgan , " John ...
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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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