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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... trinitarian Christianity and his insistent interpretation of man and the universe in the light of this belief . The most striking example of this interest is a late novel , The Sea Lions , a stirring tale of adventure in the Antarctic ...
... trinitarian Christianity and his insistent interpretation of man and the universe in the light of this belief . The most striking example of this interest is a late novel , The Sea Lions , a stirring tale of adventure in the Antarctic ...
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... trinitarian Christianity , preferably of the Anglican or Episcopalian variety , is necessary to a good society is evident in his utopian novel , The Crater , published two years earlier . In this book Mark Woolston colo- nizes a ...
... trinitarian Christianity , preferably of the Anglican or Episcopalian variety , is necessary to a good society is evident in his utopian novel , The Crater , published two years earlier . In this book Mark Woolston colo- nizes a ...
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... trinitarianism is true , we must infer that Christ came to change God's mind rather than the minds of men and that the highest object of his mission was to avert punishment rather than to communicate holiness . Trinitarianism , in ...
... trinitarianism is true , we must infer that Christ came to change God's mind rather than the minds of men and that the highest object of his mission was to avert punishment rather than to communicate holiness . Trinitarianism , in ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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