03110nam a2200481Ki 4500 ocn857769527 OCoLC 20200709055945.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 130909s2013 mdu o 001 0 eng d N$T rda pn N$T 9780739173572 (electronic bk.) 073917357X (electronic bk.) 9780739173565 0739173561 (OCoLC)857769527 638391 (N$T) n-us--- BL65.S8 A63 2013eb POL 043000 bisacsh 322/.1 23 N$TA Anastaplo, George, 1925- Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution / George Anastaplo. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2013. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes index. Euripides on the use and abuse of revelation in the service of the political order -- The divine, an unsettling duality, and the conduct of one's life : Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos revisited -- On Aristophanes' Clouds -- Socrates' dangerous piety -- Plato on the divine in human affairs -- Maimonides and others on faith, philosophy, and governing principles -- Conscience and citizenship -- El Greco and his successors -- Miguel de Cervantes on death, the divine, and the proper ordering of human affairs -- Thomas Hobbes on church and state -- John Milton's Paradise epics and the divinely-ordained redemption of the human race -- Challenges posed by the Aztecs -- The Holocaust and the divine ordering of human affairs -- Nature and the divine in the declaration of independence -- Benedict Arnold, providence, and the fates of citizens and of nations -- Benjamin Franklin and the workings of the divine at least in America -- "In the year of [what] lord?" -- Political symbols and the sacred in the United States -- Thomas Jefferson and religious liberty -- Abraham Lincoln and the Almighty -- Presidential invocations of the divine -- Presidential farewell addresses -- Revelation, human understanding, and the ordering of the good life : the "Mormon" movement -- Revelation and the use of the United States postal system : the "I am" movement -- An earth elsewhere? -- Yearnings for the divine and the natural animation of matter. Description based on print version record. Religion and state. Religion and state United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Anastaplo, George, 1925- Reflections on religion, the divine, and the constitution 9780739173565 (DLC) 2013025312 (OCoLC)842111820 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=638391 EBSCOhost EBSC 638391 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 53878 53878