{"id":9538257617190,"title":"God and the Civil War: Lincoln in Moral and Theological Perspective","handle":"god-and-the-civil-war-lincoln-in-moral-and-theological-perspective","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(57, 108, 65);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Mark J. Larson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(57, 108, 65);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN 9798989400874\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(57, 108, 65);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages 173\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BodyTextDropCap\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbraham Lincoln believed that God was the central actor in the Civil War. As president, Lincoln was not controlling events. God was the decisive actor in the conflict, and he was manifesting his justice for the complicity of both North and South in a great moral wrong. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoBodyText\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLincoln identified as a conservative who positioned himself with the political philosophy of the Founding Fathers. Yet, he also embraced the American political tradition which maintained that Americans are a Christian people who govern themselves under the providential authority of God. He consequently stood in continuity with New England theology and Old School Presbyterianism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoBodyText\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLincoln had a reverence for the law that was balanced by the need to critically assess its legitimacy on the basis of natural law. Augustine and Aquinas had said the same thing. He believed that resistance to constitutional subversion is a proper response. He was standing at this point in the trajectory of Calvinist resistance theory as espoused by Theodore Beza. At the same time, the rebellion of the South in his view had no just cause and was an instance of insurrection. Lincoln also insisted that it is a self-evident truth that all people are created equal and have the God-given inalienable right of liberty. 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Larson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(57, 108, 65);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN 9798989400874\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(57, 108, 65);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages 173\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BodyTextDropCap\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbraham Lincoln believed that God was the central actor in the Civil War. As president, Lincoln was not controlling events. God was the decisive actor in the conflict, and he was manifesting his justice for the complicity of both North and South in a great moral wrong. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoBodyText\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLincoln identified as a conservative who positioned himself with the political philosophy of the Founding Fathers. Yet, he also embraced the American political tradition which maintained that Americans are a Christian people who govern themselves under the providential authority of God. He consequently stood in continuity with New England theology and Old School Presbyterianism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoBodyText\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLincoln had a reverence for the law that was balanced by the need to critically assess its legitimacy on the basis of natural law. Augustine and Aquinas had said the same thing. He believed that resistance to constitutional subversion is a proper response. He was standing at this point in the trajectory of Calvinist resistance theory as espoused by Theodore Beza. At the same time, the rebellion of the South in his view had no just cause and was an instance of insurrection. Lincoln also insisted that it is a self-evident truth that all people are created equal and have the God-given inalienable right of liberty. Augustine and John Calvin had insisted that equality between human beings was the divine intention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}