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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... orthodoxy with its emphasis upon human sin and human weakness , the aristocracy of the elected few and the hopeless condition of the many who were damned ? Law , education , medicine were to be revolutionized in the young republic , and ...
... orthodoxy with its emphasis upon human sin and human weakness , the aristocracy of the elected few and the hopeless condition of the many who were damned ? Law , education , medicine were to be revolutionized in the young republic , and ...
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... orthodoxy , and helped create a Protestant ecumenical move- ment after the Civil War that produced such useful things as the National Council of Churches of Christ and the American Humanist Society . The aesthetics of the movement were ...
... orthodoxy , and helped create a Protestant ecumenical move- ment after the Civil War that produced such useful things as the National Council of Churches of Christ and the American Humanist Society . The aesthetics of the movement were ...
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... orthodoxy of a narrow sort is explicitly or implicitly condemned . Few novelists , however , have made the tenets of a particular church an affirma- tive theme ; most novelists tend to assume that humanity , or , as some would say , the ...
... orthodoxy of a narrow sort is explicitly or implicitly condemned . Few novelists , however , have made the tenets of a particular church an affirma- tive theme ; most novelists tend to assume that humanity , or , as some would say , the ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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