Reflections on religion, the divine, and the Constitution

Abstract

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. 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 A. The Declaration of Independence (1776) Appendices A, B, and C should be taken from Reflections on Slavery and the 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