Faith, Resilience, and Moral Vision: An Ethical Reading of John Greenleaf Whittier’s Poem: “Trust” (1872)

Abstract

The post-Civil War period challenged Americans to reconstruct not only political institutions but also themoral and spiritual foundations of national life, as the nation grappled with questions of how to moveforward after catastrophic violence and loss. The present paper deals with the problem of how faith sustains individuals through periods