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• Introduction
• Competing conceptions of Churchill's faith
• Setting the scene
• Seeds of spirituality, 1874-1894
• Soldier and war correspondent, 1893-1901 and 1914-1918
• Political roles, 1901-1931
• The wilderness years, 1931-1939
• Statesman and wartime prime minister, 1940-1945
• Cold war warrior and peace-promoting prime minister, 1945-1955
• Retirement years, 1955-1965
• Conclusion

"An analysis of Winston Churchill's enigmatic religious convictions, his use of biblical and religious rhetoric, and how his beliefs helped shape his objectives and policies"-- Provided by publisher

• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Ch. 1: John Adams: A Church-Going Sage
• Ch. 2: James Madison: Champion of Religious Liberty
• Ch. 3: John Quincy Adams: A Republic of Virtue
• Ch. 4: Andrew Jackson: Providentialist President
• Ch. 5: William McKinley: America as God's Instrument
• Ch. 6: Herbert Hoover: Individual Faithfulness and Cooperative Association
• Ch. 7: Harry S. Truman: The Golden Rule President
• Ch. 8: Richard Nixon: A Private and Enigmatic Faith
• Ch. 9: George H. W. Bush: <"One Nation under God>"
• Ch. 10: Bill Clinton: Sin, Atonement, and Repairing the Breach
• Ch. 11: Barack Obama: <"We Are Our Brother's Keeper>"
• Ch. 12: Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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In Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith offered comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven US presidents. In this book he takes on eleven more chief executives, drawing on a wide range of sources, and paying close attention to historical context and America's shifting social and moral values. Smith scrutinizes the convictions, use of religious rhetoric, and character of these eleven presidents by examining their lives, beliefs, policies, elections, and relationships of some of the nation's more colorful, charismatic, and complex leaders: John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William McKinley, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. Religious commitments, Smith shows, strongly affected policy, from John Quincy Adams' treatment of native Americans and diplomacy, to William McKinley's decision to declare war against Spain in 1898 and take control of the Philippines, to Herbert Hoover's quest to reform prisons and defend civil liberties, to Harry Truman's approach to the Cold War and decision to recognize Israel, to Bill Clinton's promotion of religious liberty and reform of welfare, to Barack Obama's policies on poverty and gay rights. This volume will offer an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the presidency and the role of religion in politics.
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• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Ch. 1: John Adams: A Church-Going Sage
• Ch. 2: James Madison: Champion of Religious Liberty
• Ch. 3: John Quincy Adams: A Republic of Virtue
• Ch. 4: Andrew Jackson: Providentialist President
• Ch. 5: William McKinley: America as God's Instrument
• Ch. 6: Herbert Hoover: Individual Faithfulness and Cooperative Association
• Ch. 7: Harry S. Truman: The Golden Rule President
• Ch. 8: Richard Nixon: A Private and Enigmatic Faith
• Ch. 9: George H. W. Bush: <"One Nation under God>"
• Ch. 10: Bill Clinton: Sin, Atonement, and Repairing the Breach
• Ch. 11: Barack Obama: <"We Are Our Brother's Keeper>"
• Ch. 12: Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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In Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith offered comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven US presidents. In this book he takes on eleven more chief executives, drawing on a wide range of sources, and paying close attention to historical context and America's shifting social and moral values. Smith scrutinizes the convictions, use of religious rhetoric, and character of these eleven presidents by examining their lives, beliefs, policies, elections, and relationships of some of the nation's more colorful, charismatic, and complex leaders: John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William McKinley, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. Religious commitments, Smith shows, strongly affected policy, from John Quincy Adams' treatment of native Americans and diplomacy, to William McKinley's decision to declare war against Spain in 1898 and take control of the Philippines, to Herbert Hoover's quest to reform prisons and defend civil liberties, to Harry Truman's approach to the Cold War and decision to recognize Israel, to Bill Clinton's promotion of religious liberty and reform of welfare, to Barack Obama's policies on poverty and gay rights. This volume will offer an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the presidency and the role of religion in politics.
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• Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Puritans: Celebrating the Glory of Heaven Chapter 3. Jonathan Edwards and the First Great Awakening: Heaven Is a World of Love Chapter 4. The Early National Era and the Second Great Awakening: The Founders, Assaults on Orthodoxy, and Revival Chapter 5. Heaven as Home: The Victorians and Heaven, 1830-1870
• Family, Friends, and Fellowship Chapter 6. Slavery, the Civil War, and Heaven Chapter 7. Heaven in the Gilded Age: Dwight Moody and the Princes of the Pulpit Chapter 8. Heaven in the Progressive Years: The Social Gospel, Urban Revivalism, and Theological Liberalism
• Personal Growth, Service, and Reform Chapter 9. Heaven from the Roaring Twenties to the Fabulous Fifties Chapter 10. Heaven, 1960-2000: New Trends and Revived Themes Chapter 11. The Contemporary Scene: Heaven Today Chapter 12. Conclusion.
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Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. In this book, Gary Scott Smith looks at heaven through an American lens, tracing the history of heaven in the American imagination from the Puritans to the present. Concepts of heaven, he argues, are ever-changing, constantly adapting to the spirit of the age. In the colonial era, heaven focused primarily on the glory of God. For the Victorians, heaven was a warm comfortable home where people would live forever with their family and friends. Today, heaven has less Christian identity; many see it as a celestial entertainment center or a paradise where everyone can reach their full potential. Drawing on an astounding array of sources, including works of art, music, sociology, psychology, folklore, liturgy, sermons, poetry, fiction, and devotional books, Smith paints a sweeping, provocative portrait of what Americans-from Jonathan Edwards to Mitch Albom-have thought about heaven.
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• George Washington and providential agency
• Thomas Jefferson and the separation of church and state
• Abraham Lincoln : saving the last best hope of earth
• Theodore Roosevelt and the bully pulpit
• Woodrow Wilson : Presbyterian statesman
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the quest to achieve an abundant life
• Dwight David Eisenhower, dynamic conservatism, and the religious revival of the 1950s
• John F. Kennedy : the first Catholic president
• Jimmy Carter : first servant of the nation
• Ronald Reagan : making America God's shining city on a hill
• George W. Bush : a faith-based presidency.

• George Washington and providential agency
• Thomas Jefferson and the separation of church and state
• Abraham Lincoln : saving the last best hope of earth
• Theodore Roosevelt and the bully pulpit
• Woodrow Wilson : Presbyterian statesman
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the quest to achieve an abundant life
• Dwight David Eisenhower, dynamic conservatism, and the religious revival of the 1950s
• John F. Kennedy : the first Catholic president
• Jimmy Carter : first servant of the nation
• Ronald Reagan : making America God's shining city on a hill
• George W. Bush : a faith-based presidency.

In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought "moral values" was the most important issue at stake. People on both sides of the political divide believed this was the key to victory for George W. Bush, who professes a deep and abiding faith in God. While some fervent Bush supporters see him as a man chosen by God for the White House, opponents see his overt commitment to Christianity as a dangerous and unprecedented bridging of the gap between church and state. In fact, Gary Scott Smith shows, none of this is new. Religion has been a major part of the presidency since George Washington's first inaugural address. Despite the mounting interest in the role of religion in American public life, we actually know remarkably little about the faith of our presidents. Was Thomas Jefferson an atheist, as his political opponents charged? What role did Lincoln's religious views play in his handling of slavery and the Civil War? How did born-again Southern Baptist Jimmy Carter lose the support of many evangelicals? Is George W. Bush, as his critics often claim, a captive of the religious right? In this fascinating book, Smith answers these questions and many more. He takes a sweeping look at the role religion has played in presidential politics and policies. Drawing on extensive archival research, Smith paints compelling portraits of the religious lives and presidencies of eleven chief executives for whom religion was particularly important. Faith and the Presidency meticulously examines what each of its subjects believed and how those beliefs shaped their presidencies and, in turn, the course of our history.
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• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Reassessing Social Christianity: Participants and Purposes
• Chapter 3 When Stead Came to Chicago: Social Christianity and Political Reform
• Chapter 4 Charles Sheldon's In His Steps and the Social Gospel Novel
• Chapter 5 To Reconstruct the World: Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Socialism, and Social Change
• Chapter 6 Women and Social Christianity: Vida Scudder's Quest to Create a Cooperative Commonwealth
• Chapter 7 Blacks and Social Christianity: Reverdy Ransom, a Champion of Black Civil Rights
• Chapter 8 Social Christianity, Businessmen, and the Golden Rule: John Wanamaker, John J. Eagan, and Arthur Nash
• Chapter 9 Social Christianity, Businessmen, and the Golden Rule II: Nelson O. Nelson and Samuel M. Jones
• Chapter 10 Evangelicals and Social Christianity: The Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911-1912
• Chapter 11 Conservative Critics of Social Christianity
• Chapter 12 Toward a New Definition of Social Christianity: Advocates, Activities, Principles, and Achievements
• Chapter 13 Appendix: Social Christianity in White Protestant Denominations, 1180-1925.
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In their studies of social Christianity, scholars of American religion have devoted critical attention to a group of theologically liberal pastors, primarily in the Northeast. Gary Scott Smith attempts to paint a more complete picture of the movement. Smith's ambitious and thorough study amply demonstrates how social Christianity-which included blacks, women, Southerners, and Westerners-worked to solve industrial, political, and urban problems; reduce racial discrimination; increase the status of women; curb drunkenness and prostitution; strengthen the family; upgrade public schools; and raise the quality of public health. In his analysis of the available scholarship and case studies of individuals, organizations, and campaigns central to the movement, Smith makes a convincing case that social Christianity was the most widespread, long-lasting, and influential religious social reform movement in American history.
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• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Reassessing Social Christianity: Participants and Purposes
• Chapter 3 When Stead Came to Chicago: Social Christianity and Political Reform
• Chapter 4 Charles Sheldon's In His Steps and the Social Gospel Novel
• Chapter 5 To Reconstruct the World: Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Socialism, and Social Change
• Chapter 6 Women and Social Christianity: Vida Scudder's Quest to Create a Cooperative Commonwealth
• Chapter 7 Blacks and Social Christianity: Reverdy Ransom, a Champion of Black Civil Rights
• Chapter 8 Social Christianity, Businessmen, and the Golden Rule: John Wanamaker, John J. Eagan, and Arthur Nash
• Chapter 9 Social Christianity, Businessmen, and the Golden Rule II: Nelson O. Nelson and Samuel M. Jones
• Chapter 10 Evangelicals and Social Christianity: The Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911-1912
• Chapter 11 Conservative Critics of Social Christianity
• Chapter 12 Toward a New Definition of Social Christianity: Advocates, Activities, Principles, and Achievements
• Chapter 13 Appendix: Social Christianity in White Protestant Denominations, 1180-1925.
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In their studies of social Christianity, scholars of American religion have devoted critical attention to a group of theologically liberal pastors, primarily in the Northeast. Gary Scott Smith attempts to paint a more complete picture of the movement. Smith's ambitious and thorough study amply demonstrates how social Christianity-which included blacks, women, Southerners, and Westerners-worked to solve industrial, political, and urban problems; reduce racial discrimination; increase the status of women; curb drunkenness and prostitution; strengthen the family; upgrade public schools; and raise the quality of public health. In his analysis of the available scholarship and case studies of individuals, organizations, and campaigns central to the movement, Smith makes a convincing case that social Christianity was the most widespread, long-lasting, and influential religious social reform movement in American history.
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Presbyterianism emerged during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It spread from the British Isles to North America in the early eighteenth century. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Presbyterian denominations grew throughout the world. Today, there are an estimated 35 million Presbyterians in dozens of countries. The Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism provides a state of the art reference tool written by leading scholars in the fields of religious studies and history. These thirty five articles cover major facets of Presbyterian history, theological beliefs, worship practices, ecclesiastical forms and structures, as well as important ethical, political, and educational issues. Eschewing parochial and sectarian triumphalism, prominent scholars address their particular topics objectively and judiciously.
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