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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... Calvinist theory about the depravity of human nature . But Calvinism had many phases ; and transcendentalism drew upon certain impor- tant elements in Calvinist theory to feed itself . For all its rigidity Calvinism in a sense asserts ...
... Calvinist theory about the depravity of human nature . But Calvinism had many phases ; and transcendentalism drew upon certain impor- tant elements in Calvinist theory to feed itself . For all its rigidity Calvinism in a sense asserts ...
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... Calvinist and a mystic ; and Jonathan Edwards ' Treatise Concerning the Religious Affections , which Emerson knew , and his ... Calvinism , or some branches of it , had so weakened its traditional tenets that Christian theology tended to ...
... Calvinist and a mystic ; and Jonathan Edwards ' Treatise Concerning the Religious Affections , which Emerson knew , and his ... Calvinism , or some branches of it , had so weakened its traditional tenets that Christian theology tended to ...
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... Calvinism in this experience . If he had been taught any kind of Calvinism , and if this had been really ground into him , we should have heard later how he struggled with the concepts of damnation , election , and efficacious grace ...
... Calvinism in this experience . If he had been taught any kind of Calvinism , and if this had been really ground into him , we should have heard later how he struggled with the concepts of damnation , election , and efficacious grace ...
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