What the World Should Be : Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy

by Magee, Malcolm D.

• ISBN13: 9781602580701
• ISBN10: 1602580707
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-16
• Publisher: Baylor Univ Pr

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Malcolm D. Magee is the Director for The Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture and has taught history and religious studies at Michigan State and continues to teach in the history department as a visiting faculty.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Development of Woodrow Wilson's Thought to 1913	p. 9
The Challenge of the Present Age: The Persistence of the International Order	p. 41
Keeping to the Principles in Peace and War	p. 65
Negotiating the Tablets of Stone	p. 85
Epilogue	p. 115
Appendices
"Christ's Army"	p. 119
Wilson's "Fourteen Points" Address to Congress	p. 123
The Covenant of the League of Nations	p. 129
Inaugural Address at Southwestern Presbyterian University	p. 143
Notes	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 175
Index	p. 185
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