TY - BOOK ID - 77908004 TI - Bonds of affection PY - 2007 SN - 1589012771 143562727X 9781435627277 9781589012776 9781589011830 158901183X PB - Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press DB - UniCat KW - Charity KW - Democracy KW - Alms and almsgiving KW - Conduct of life KW - Self-government KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Political aspects KW - Religious aspects KW - History KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - Sources UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77908004 AB - Notions of Christian love, or charity, strongly shaped the political thought of John Winthrop, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln as each presided over a foundational moment in the development of American democracy. Matthew Holland examines how each figure interpreted and appropriated charity, revealing both the problems and possibilities of making it a political ideal. Holland first looks at early American literature and seminal speeches by Winthrop to show how the Puritan theology of this famed 17th century governor of the Massachusetts Colony (he who first envisioned America as a City up ER -