Standing at Armageddon, 1909‒1914

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-153
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Wetzel
Keyword(s):  
Moral Character ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
King James Bible ◽  
Progressive Party

This chapter shows how Roosevelt continued to be involved in religious issues after his presidency. He joined the staff of the liberal Protestant publication Outlook where he worked under the Reverend Lyman Abbott and wrote several articles dealing with religious issues. Roosevelt also gave a series of lectures at Pacific Theological Seminary in 1911, including one on the importance of the King James Bible. Running for president again in 1912, Roosevelt and the Progressive Party used a plethora of religious imagery in his unsuccessful bid to recapture the Oval Office. The chapter concludes with Roosevelt’s moral character being vindicated in a libel trial in 1913.

Theodore Roosevelt

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Wetzel
Keyword(s):  
Church Attendance ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
King James Bible

Theodore Roosevelt is well-known as a rancher, hunter, naturalist, soldier, historian, explorer, and statesman. His visage is etched on Mount Rushmore—alongside those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln—as a symbol of his vast and consequential legacy. While Roosevelt’s storied life has been written about from many angles, no modern book probes deeply into his engagement with religious beliefs, practices, and controversies despite his lifelong church attendance and commentary on religious issues. Theodore Roosevelt: Preaching from the Bully Pulpit traces Roosevelt’s personal religious odyssey from youthful faith and pious devotion to a sincere but more detached adult faith. It also shows the president as a champion of the separation of church and state, a defender of religious ecumenism, and a “preacher” who used his “bully pulpit” to preach morality using the language of the King James Bible. Contextualizing Roosevelt in the American religious world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book shows how religious groups interpreted the famous Rough Rider and how he catered to, rebuked, and interacted with various religious constituencies. Based in large part on personal correspondence and unpublished archival materials, this book offers a new interpretation of an extremely significant historical figure.

Differentiating between different forms of moral obligations

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajen A. Anderson ◽  
Benjamin C. Ruisch ◽  
David A. Pizarro
Keyword(s):  
Moral Character ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Different Types

Abstract We argue that Tomasello's account overlooks important psychological distinctions between how humans judge different types of moral obligations, such as prescriptive obligations (i.e., what one should do) and proscriptive obligations (i.e., what one should not do). Specifically, evaluating these different types of obligations rests on different psychological inputs and has distinct downstream consequences for judgments of moral character.

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