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Cite References Print. References Barna, Mark Richard. Steven A. From the Inquiries Journal Blog. Related Reading Literature » American Literature. African-American Studies » African-american Literature. History » American History. Literature » American Literature. Monthly Newsletter Signup The newsletter highlights recent selections from the journal and useful tips from our blog. Follow us to get updates from Inquiries Journal in your daily feed. American Transcendentalism , despite having an amorphous and transient lifespan, holds strong importance in American history: religious, philosophical, and literary.
Not only did this movement approach societal MORE ». People love a good story. A good story can be intriguingly informative, a good story can well up deep emotions and a good story can carry culture, history and tradition.
It was through storytelling that many ancient cultures This paper examines two influential slave uprisings and the treatment these received by both the abolitionist movement and the press. Until the outbreak of civil war, the United States would continually try and fail to subdue the existential threat of slavery, with each attempt exacerbating the sectional tensions between slave and free states.
Follow IJ. Emerson points to the established Christian church as an illustration of this decline of religion from what it was and should be. Jesus, Emerson declares, "belonged to the true race of prophets. In his life, he demonstrated the agency of God through men.
But the example of Jesus has been misused by the church, which quickly came to deny his humanity and to focus upon "the idioms of his language, and the figures of his rhetoric" instead.
The church has offered false miracles in place of the miracles of human life that Jesus himself recognized, and it has replaced inner perception of truth and goodness with externally imposed commandments. Emerson then explores two errors in the administration of Christianity as an institution. Firstly, rather than promoting the doctrine of the soul as it applies to all, Christianity raises Jesus up above other men. The soul "knows no persons," Emerson writes, but indiscriminately invites each man "to expand to the full circle of the universe.
The approach that takes God out of man weakens man; that which reveals God within strengthens man. If God is not within, then there is no reason for man's existence, and he will "decease forever. Ordinary men tend to exaggerate the importance of a "great and rich soul" like Jesus, and not to see that they themselves can elevate by "coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves.
It isolates Jesus and discounts the warmth and vigor that characterized his life and words. Secondly, Emerson examines the failure of traditional Christianity to acknowledge as its source "Moral Nature, that Law of laws, whose revelations introduce greatness, — yea, God himself, into the open soul. This belief makes it difficult for the minister to preach with meaning and to offer inspiration. Because he is obliged to preach a religion that has been formalized and codified, he cannot preach the primacy of the soul.
Because "the seer is a sayer," the minister's words do not satisfy his own inner although sometimes unrecognized need to impart vision of the "beauty of the soul" to others; nor do they satisfy the innate craving of the members of his congregation to realize their own personal connection to God. Emerson deplores the death of faith and the lifelessness of the church, and he urges his audience of new preachers embarking upon pastoral careers to restore truth, the soul, and intuitive revelation to the church.
The barrenness of inherited religion must be acknowledged, and ministers must accept their true and exalted function. The preacher's particular office is to express the applicability of the moral sentiment to the duties of life, to help his parishioners relate the ideal to experience.
Emerson laments how infrequently the preacher helps man to see "that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind; that he is drinking forever the soul of God," and points out that we ourselves, sitting in church on Sunday, come to a better understanding of God than the preacher offers. Religious formalism leaves us empty. Arts and humanities US history The early republic Culture and reform in the early nineteenth century. The Second Great Awakening - origins and major ideas.
The Second Great Awakening - reform and religious movements. The development of an American culture. The virtue in most request is conformity Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. His stress on the individual, his defense of nonconformity, and his vocal critique of the alienation and social fragmentation that had accompanied the growth of cities and industry led others to try to apply the principles of transcendentalism to their personal lives and to society at large.
A pencilmaker, surveyor, and poet, Thoreau, like Emerson, was educated at Harvard.
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