What the world should be
Subtitle: Woodrow Wilson and the crafting of a faith-based foreign policy
By: Malcolm D. Magee.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781602580701
Subjects: Wilson, Woodrow, -- 1856-1924 -- Political and social views; Wilson, Woodrow, -- 1856-1924 -- Religion; Christianity and politics -- United States -- Presbyterian Church -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1913-1921
Description: In What the World Should Be, Malcolm Magee demonstrates that Woodrow Wilson was immersed in a Presbyterian tradition that shaped his presidency. He argues that Wilson's religious convictions shaped his concepts of effective leadership, the way he reasoned, and his use of language. In particular, Wilson's religious beliefs accustomed him to the theological principle of antinomy: that two principles could both be right even when, considered only in the light of logic, they appear mutually contradictory. These convictions ultimately made Wilson believe he was providentially chosen to bring divinely ordered freedom to the nations and peoples of the earth. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The development of Woodrow Wilson's thought to 1913; title: The challenge of the present age : the persistence of the international order; title: Keeping to the principles in peace and war; title: Negotiating the tablets of stone; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix I: "Christ's Army"; title: Appendix II: Wilson's "Fourteen points" address to Congress; title: Appendix III: The covenant of the League of Nations; title: Appendix IV: "Southwestern Seminary inaugural address" / J.R. Wilson.