Abraham Lincoln is not just one of my heroes. He is the one historical figure that I continuously look to for support in a difficult world. No matter how dismal my situation seems to be I can find in Abraham Lincoln someone who seems to understand.
Lincoln was never a member of a Christian denomination. He did occasionally attend a church in Springfield where he bought a family pew in the largely political tradition of the time. It is clear the King James version of the Bible had a profound influence on his thinking and he quoted it often in all his work.
Lincoln was a fatalist. He had a sense of God as a distant and ultimately unknowable force in a Deistic sense. Lincoln was definitely a humanist in the truest sense of the word. His Christianity was individualistic, concerned with a personal relationship with the world and God. Yet, he also had a sense of a greater plan and destiny that results from a person that has endured much in his lifetime.
The recommended book to read is The Inspired Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln by Philip L. Ostergard. There are many books on Lincoln’s religious and philosophical views. This book is a good place to start.
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