George Anastaplo

Reflections on Religion, the Divine, and the Constitution (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Part One, the uses of divine revelation in the Western world are reviewed by recalling authors that include Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Maimonides, Cervantes, Hobbes, and Milton. The challenges posed by such monstrosities as Aztec human sacrifices and the Second World War Holocaust are recalled. In Part Two, the challenges of religion for and by Americans are examined. Documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of 1787, and Presidential Farewell Addresses are recalled. The lives and thought of eminent Americans are also recalled (including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln). Recalled as well are such movements as that of the Mormons and that of the "I Am" sect. The implications both for religious developments and for religious orthodox of modern science are investigated. The Appendices reinforce these inquiries by providing reminders of how distinguished commentators and others have tried to deal with critical questions noticed in the Essays of this book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739173572
• Artikelnr.: 39473411

Autorenporträt

George Anastaplo is currently Lecturer in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago, Professor of Law at Loyola University of Chicago, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and of Philosophy at Dominican University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part One 1. Euripides on the Use and Abuse of Revelation in the
Service of the Political Order 2. The Divine, an Unsettling Duality, and
the Conduct of One's Life: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos Revisited 3. On
Aristophanes' Clouds 4. Socrates' Dangerous Piety 5. Plato on the Divine in
Human Affairs 6. Maimonides and Others on Faith, Philosophy, and Governing
Principles 7. Conscience and Citizenship 8. El Greco and His Successors 9.
Miguel de Cervantes on Death, the Divine, and the Proper Ordering of Human
Affairs 10. Thomas Hobbes on Church and State 11. John Milton's Paradise
Epics and the Divinely-Ordained Redemption of the Human Race 12. Challenges
Posed by the Aztecs 13. The Holocaust and the Divine Ordering of Human
Affairs ii. Part Two 1. Nature and the Divine in the Declaration of
Independence 2. Benedict Arnold, Providence, and the Fates of Citizens and
of Nations 3. Benjamin Franklin and the Workings of the Divine - At Least
in America 4. "In the Year of [What] Lord?" 5. Political Symbols and the
Sacred in the United States 6. Thomas Jefferson and Religious Liberty 7.
Abraham Lincoln and the Almighty 8. Presidential Invocations of the Divine
9. Presidential Farewell Addresses 10. Revelation, Human Understanding, and
the Ordering of the Good Life: The "Mormon" Movement 11. Revelation and the
Use of the United States Postal System: The "I Am" Movement 12. An Earth
Elsewhere? 13. Yearnings for the Divine and the Natural Animation of Matter
Appendices A. The Declaration of Independence (1776)
B. The United
States Constitution (1787) C. The Amendments to the United States
Constitution (1791-1992) D. On the "Destiny" of the Jews in Eastern Europe
(1939-1945) D (1) God, Please Choose Somebody Else (2000) D (2) In Eastern
Europe, Anti-Semitism Is a Kind of Religion (2000) E. Martin E. Marty,
George Anastaplo on the Christian Heritage (2010) F. George Anastaplo, On
the Human Soul and Eternity (2010) G. Christopher A. Colmo, George
Anastaplo's Appeal to Nature (2012) H. George Anastaplo, Reflections upon
Any Trial for Impiety Not Only of Socrates But Also of Us (2013) I. George
Anastaplo, Life and Death in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (2013) J.
Harry V. Jaffa, Foreword for George Anastaplo's Further Thoughts on Abraham
Lincoln: Discourse on Chance and Public Life (2013) K. Roger H. Hildebrand,
On the Use by Physicists of Life-like Words (2013) L. John Van Doren,
Silence at Delphi (2013) M. Roster of Cases Drawn On About the Author