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Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America (Hardcover)
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Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America (Hardcover)
Series: Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy: Studies in Religion & Politics
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As debates rage over the place of faith in our national life,
Tocqueville's nineteenth-century crediting of religion for shaping
America is largely overlooked today. Now, in ""Republicanism,
Religion, and the Soul of America"", Ellis Sandoz reveals the major
role that Protestant Christianity played in the formation and early
period of the American republic. Sandoz traces the rise of
republican government from key sources in Protestant civilization,
paying particular attention to the influence of the Bible on the
Founders and the blossoming of the American mind in the eighteenth
century. Sandoz analyzes the religious debt of the emergent
American community and its elevation of the individual person as
unique in the eyes of the Creator. He shows that the true
distinction of American republicanism lies in its grounding of
human dignity in spiritual individualism and an understanding of
man's capacity for self-government under providential guidance.
Along the way, he addresses such topics as the neglected question
of the education of the Founders for their unique endeavor, common
law constitutionalism, the place of Latin and Greek classics in the
Founders' thought, and the texture of religious experience from the
Great Awakening to the Declaration of Independence. To establish a
unifying theoretical perspective for his study, Sandoz considers
the philosophical underpinnings of religion and the contribution
that Eric Voegelin made to our understanding of religious
experience. He contributes fresh studies of the character of
Voegelin's thought: its relationship to Christianity; his debate
with Leo Strauss over reason, revelation, and the meaning of
philosophy; and the theory of Gnosticism as basic to radical
modernity. He also provides a powerful account of the spirit of
Voegelin's later writings, contrasting the political scientist with
the meditative spiritualist and offering new insight into volume 5
of Order and History. Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of
America concludes with timely reflections on the epoch now
unfolding in the shadow of Islamic jihadism. Bringing a wide range
of materials into a single volume, it confronts current academic
concerns with religion while offering new insight into the
construction of the American polity - and the heart of Americanism
as we know it today.
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