Stephen Mansfield, Lincoln’s Battle with God: A President’s Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012). $22.99, 272 pages. Lincoln’s Battle with God will disappoint two kinds of readers: secularists and Christian nationalists, both of whom want to claim America’s sixteenth president as wholly their own. He is neither, however. As Stephen Mansfield writes, “The silencing of Lincoln’s faith by the secular and the exaggerating of Lincoln’s faith by the religious have given us a less accurate and a less engaging Lincoln. We are poorer for the distortions.” Indeed we are, which is all the … Continue reading Neither Infidel Nor Orthodox Christian: A Review of ‘Lincoln’s Battle’ with God by Stephen Mansifeld