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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. |
