| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith. By Joseph R. Fornieri. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. x, 209 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-87580-315-6.)
The landscape of Abraham Lincoln's political faith is contested territory. Professors, politicians, poets, and pastors have approached this topic from different angles of vision over the years. Joseph R. Fornieri walks with eyes wide open into this terrain armed with a first-rate knowledge of a wide range of studies, especially recent examinations of Lincoln.	1
Fornieri approaches his subject through the lens of "civil theology," wherein he suggests that Lincoln struggles with competing "moral justifications" of the Union. The author organizes Lincoln's diverse thought under the framework of "biblical republicanism," which he describes as "constituted by the mutual and complementary influence of reason and revelation." Fornieri argues that Lincoln's approach was not as a theologian constructing an abstract system of belief, but rather a "concrete historical response" to the rival civil theologies of proslavery thought, radical abolitionism, and popular sovereignty (pp. 3–6).	. . .

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