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Calvinist Protestant Theology in American Political Thought
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show this belief.
Standing on the bare ground-my head bathed in the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space-all mean egotism vanishes. I became a transparent eyeball; I am nothing. I see all the currents of the universe being circulated through me: I am a part or parcel of God.
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-R.W. Emerson
Within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the Eternal One. All men are different. Each in his own peculiar way expresses the Over-Soul within him.
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-R.W. Emerson
The problem of the Transcendental philosophy is no less than this, to revise the experience of mankind and its teachings by the nature of mankind; to test ethics by conscience, science by reason; to try the creeds of the churches, the constitution of the states by the constitution of the universe; to revise what is wrong, supply what is wanting, and command the just.
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-Theodore Parker
The Transcendentalists had evoked a different view of nature and man to form a
pantheistic epistemology. All is divine, man must simply look within to find what he must do to be free from previous constraint. The theology and philosophy of the Transcendentalists created a strong individualism and urge toward personal liberty. This a direct result of each man’s possession of some aspect of the divine Unity of all. As C. Gregg Singer points out in his work, Transcendentalists like Channing believed that man did not know God through nature or natural law, empirically observed, but on the basis of his divinity.
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The idea of God, sublime and awful as it is, is the idea of our own spiritual
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R. W. Emerson, “Nature,” Complete Works (Riverside Edition), 1883, vol. I, pp.15-16.
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R. W. Emerson, “Over-Soul,” op. cit., II, p. 253.
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Theodore Parker, Works, Centenary Edition, Boston, Beacon Press, 1907-13, VI, pp. 37-38.
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C. Gregg Singer, A Theological Interpretation of American History, p. 59.
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show this belief.
Standing on the bare ground-my head bathed in the blithe air, and uplifted
into infinite space-all mean egotism vanishes. I became a transparent
eyeball; I am nothing. I see all the currents of the universe being
circulated through me: I am a part or parcel of God.
36
-R.W. Emerson
Within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty
to which every part and particle is equally related; the Eternal One. All
men are different. Each in his own peculiar way expresses the Over-Soul
within him.
37
-R.W. Emerson
The problem of the Transcendental philosophy is no less than this, to
revise the experience of mankind and its teachings by the nature of
mankind; to test ethics by conscience, science by reason; to try the creeds
of the churches, the constitution of the states by the constitution of the
universe; to revise what is wrong, supply what is wanting, and command
the just.
38
-Theodore Parker
The Transcendentalists had evoked a different view of nature and man to form a
pantheistic epistemology. All is divine, man must simply look within to find what he
must do to be free from previous constraint. The theology and philosophy of the
Transcendentalists created a strong individualism and urge toward personal liberty. This
a direct result of each man’s possession of some aspect of the divine Unity of all. As C.
Gregg Singer points out in his work, Transcendentalists like Channing believed that man
did not know God through nature or natural law, empirically observed, but on the basis of
his divinity.
39
The idea of God, sublime and awful as it is, is the idea of our own spiritual
36
R. W. Emerson, “Nature,” Complete Works (Riverside Edition), 1883, vol. I, pp.15-16.
37
R. W. Emerson, “Over-Soul,” op. cit., II, p. 253.
38
Theodore Parker, Works, Centenary Edition, Boston, Beacon Press, 1907-13, VI, pp. 37-38.
39
C. Gregg Singer, A Theological Interpretation of American History, p. 59.
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