[Rezension von: Wetzel, Benjamin J., Theodore Roosevelt]
In this spiritual biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin J. Wetzel, an assistant professor of history at Taylor University, has done a superb job of examining the 26th president’s religious beliefs and practices. Roosevelt’s religiosity has long been a subject of contention. A politician who soun...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2023, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 161-163 |
| Review of: | Theodore Roosevelt (Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021) (Putney, Clifford)
Theodore Roosevelt (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021) (Putney, Clifford) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919
/ Religion
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
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Book review
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| Summary: | In this spiritual biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin J. Wetzel, an assistant professor of history at Taylor University, has done a superb job of examining the 26th president’s religious beliefs and practices. Roosevelt’s religiosity has long been a subject of contention. A politician who sounded like a preacher, T. R. peppered his talks and writings with quotations from the Bible (which he knew extraordinarily well), and he treated the many causes with which he was involved as moral crusades. "Religion was the heart of his life," averred the Rev. Christian Reisner, an early Roosevelt biographer, but others were not so sure (p. 194). One skeptic, the literary critic Gamaliel Bradford, contended that Roosevelt was not religious because he did not revere God. "He had no need of him and no longing," wrote Bradford, "because he really had no need of anything but his own immensely sufficient self" (p. 196). |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csac092 |