 Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 108by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gary J. Dorrien - 2001 - 534 pages
...and harmony of the soul. In Emerson's rendering, Jesus taught with singular spiritual insight "that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world." In his "jubilee of sublime emotion," Jesus proclaimed his own divinity, taught others to see God in... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - 2003 - 636 pages
...history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth...you see God, see me; or, see thee, when thou also thinkcst as I now think.' But what a distortion did his doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in... | |
 | Sanja Sostaric - 2003 - 364 pages
...age, disturbingly estranged from its spiritual source. Emerson's Jesus, quite unconventionally, says: "I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, speaks....see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think" ("Divinity School Address," SE: 113). itself would possess the wonder, the freshness and the thrill... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 pages
...world in order to teach man how to "become like God" and that He "is in me." Jesus understood that "God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World" (EWRWE 67-70, 106, 256).8 Second, by failing to make the soul in all its exalted glory the very foundation... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth...you see God, see me; or, see thee, when thou also think est as I now think." But what a distortion did his doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in... | |
 | Joel Porte - 2008 - 256 pages
..."supreme Beauty" of the soul's mystery and went out in a "jubilee of sublime emotion" to tell us all "that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world." The man who is most enamored of the "beauty of the soul" and the world in which it is incarnated is... | |
 | Thomas Shepherd - 2004 - 183 pages
...Jesus is special because: "Alone in human history, he estimated the greatness of man. ..He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world. " So miracles — supernatural intervention into time and space by a divine agency — were superfluous... | |
 | Ralph C. Wood - 2005 - 296 pages
...history [Jesus] estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World."8 The notion of "the absolutely unmediated soul" dominates the spiritual life of a church-going... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...history lie estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of Ms World, He said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, 'I am Divine. Through me God acts; through me,... | |
 | John Rodden - 2005 - 266 pages
...history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth...see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think.' " 2 According to Emerson's daring account, Jesus is important for the insights into human possibility... | |
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