Between Faith and Unbelief : American Transcendentalists and the Challenge of Atheism.
Title:
Between Faith and Unbelief : American Transcendentalists and the Challenge of Atheism.
Author:
Hurth, Elisabeth.
ISBN:
9789047421269
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Series:
Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; v.136
Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I. "The Spirit of Infidelity": Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harvard's Early Göttingen Students -- Chapter II. The "Credentials" of Faith: The Miracles Controversy in New England -- Chapter III. The Arch-Fiend of Christian Faith: David Friedrich Strauss and New England Divinity -- Chapter IV. The Claims of History: Strauss's "Mytho-Mania" and After -- Chapter V. Man as God-Maker: Feuerbachian Atheism in New England -- Chapter VI. From Idealism to Atheism: Theodore Parker and the Projection Theory of Religion -- Chapter VII. The "Cures for Atheism": Emerson and Jakob Böhme -- Chapter VIII. "A World Without God": Emerson and Arthur Schopenhauer -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book sets out to shed light on what ios specific to American Transcendentalism by comparing it with the atheistic vision of German philosophers and theologians like Ludwig Feuerbach and Arthur Schopenhauer.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Genre:
Electronic Access:
Click to View