Endless Seeker: The Religious Quest of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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University Press of America, 1991 - 169 pages
Offers the first systematic study of Emerson as a religious thinker and analyzes him as a case study in expressive religious individualism. By filling an important gap in Emersonian criticism, it not only throws new light on Emerson's thought but also offers a critique of the individualistic ideology he first formulated. Contents: Spiritual Discernment; The Saturnalia of Faith; The Philosophy of Bias; The Higher Civility; The Natural History of Intellect; The Endless Seeker: A Cas in Expressive Religious Individualism; and The World of the Transparent Eyeball (diagram).

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THE SATURNALIA OF FAITH
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MATURITY
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Donald L. Gelpi, S.J. is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.

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