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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... Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit , or to the character of the benefactors of mankind , as any three men that ever lived upon the face of the earth . " They were all of them " imposters " -a judgment which , so far as Jesus ...
... Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit , or to the character of the benefactors of mankind , as any three men that ever lived upon the face of the earth . " They were all of them " imposters " -a judgment which , so far as Jesus ...
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... Jesus , a refutation the more necessary , he thought , be- cause he wished to differentiate liberal Unitarianism in America from the extreme rationalist position of Unitarianism in England . He asserted that Jesus Christ is the only ...
... Jesus , a refutation the more necessary , he thought , be- cause he wished to differentiate liberal Unitarianism in America from the extreme rationalist position of Unitarianism in England . He asserted that Jesus Christ is the only ...
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... Jesus Christ , however you defined his nature , at a particular time in history and that this revelation is recorded in the Bible . At first young Emerson was inclined to depart no further from orthodoxy than Channing had done . His ...
... Jesus Christ , however you defined his nature , at a particular time in history and that this revelation is recorded in the Bible . At first young Emerson was inclined to depart no further from orthodoxy than Channing had done . His ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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