Belief and Disbelief in American LiteratureTom Paine and republican religion -- Landscape as religion: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- Transcendentalism and Emerson -- The cosmic optimism of Walt Whitman -- The pessimism of Mark Twain -- The cosmic loneliness of Robert Frost. |
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... ecumenicism . To this general statement there are of course one or two large exceptions . The struggle over slavery broke most of the Protestant churches into hostile factions , and as controversy grew , charges of religious hypocrisy ...
... ecumenicism . To this general statement there are of course one or two large exceptions . The struggle over slavery broke most of the Protestant churches into hostile factions , and as controversy grew , charges of religious hypocrisy ...
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... ecumenicism embracing Protes- tantism as a whole and in the case of a poet like Longfellow in- cluding Catholicism and Judaism as well . Of course Emerson transcended all formal religions . Whit- man I shall come to in a moment ...
... ecumenicism embracing Protes- tantism as a whole and in the case of a poet like Longfellow in- cluding Catholicism and Judaism as well . Of course Emerson transcended all formal religions . Whit- man I shall come to in a moment ...
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... ecumenicism in Ameri- ca - indeed , the proponent of ecumenicism in the widest sense- was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , a writer whose important contributions to religious tolerance have never been rightly eval- uated . A formal ...
... ecumenicism in Ameri- ca - indeed , the proponent of ecumenicism in the widest sense- was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , a writer whose important contributions to religious tolerance have never been rightly eval- uated . A formal ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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