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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... theology were revived and extended by the Rev. Samuel Hopkins , an abolitionist and a dull preacher , who never- theless wrote endless theological volumes , of which the System of Doctrines Contained in Divine Revelation , Explained and ...
... theology were revived and extended by the Rev. Samuel Hopkins , an abolitionist and a dull preacher , who never- theless wrote endless theological volumes , of which the System of Doctrines Contained in Divine Revelation , Explained and ...
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... theology , and in an effort to placate these secular rivals Calvinism made a series of compromises that were in fact successive defeats . Indeed , the Bible Commonwealth was doomed from its foundation . By the time of the American Revo ...
... theology , and in an effort to placate these secular rivals Calvinism made a series of compromises that were in fact successive defeats . Indeed , the Bible Commonwealth was doomed from its foundation . By the time of the American Revo ...
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... theology not also experience renovation ? After long meditation Emerson abandoned the faculty psy- chology of Locke and the formal theology of the Harvard Divin- ity School . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the ...
... theology not also experience renovation ? After long meditation Emerson abandoned the faculty psy- chology of Locke and the formal theology of the Harvard Divin- ity School . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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