Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America--Winthrop, Jefferson, and LincolnGeorgetown University Press, 04 հոկ, 2007 թ. - 336 էջ 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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... early seventeenth - century England . The first few sentences of Winthrop's sermon run remarkably parallel in phrasing and logic to a passage from a well - accepted and regularly read Anglican homily of the period titled " An ...
... early Ameri- ca's most prominent political documents . ) Two points here are striking . First , if a permanent existence of social inequality is the lot of man , all three of these reasons adjure a caring and active response to such ...
... early Puritan Massachusetts treated its racial and religious others is , of course , mixed . But the record is perhaps better — especially in Winthrop's personal case — than is gen- erally assumed . With respect to the limited African ...
... early Puritans saw local Indian populations as akin to Canaanite squatters on their Promised Land , a people to be ... earliest years of the Bay Colony , Puritan leaders , usually with Winthrop in the forefront , typ- ically ...
... early in the Atlantic voyage Winthrop stepped in and " with some difficulty " con- vinced the captain of the Arbella to remit a severe punishment issued against a crewman who had flagrantly mistreated a passenger ( the crew- man was to ...
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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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