Series Title: Studies in the history of Christian traditions, v. 136.
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Other Titles: American transcendentalists and the challenge of atheism
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Introduction --"The spirit of infidelity" : Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harvard's early Goسttingen students -- The "credentials" of faith : the miracles controversy in New England -- The arch-fiend of Christian faith : David Friedrich Strauss and New England divinity -- The claims of history : Strauss's "mytho-mania" and after -- Man as god-maker : Feuerbachian atheism in New England -- From idealism to atheism : Theodore Parker and the projection theory of religion -- The "cures for atheism" : Emerson and Jakob Boسhme -- "A world without God" : Emerson and Arthur Schopenhauer -- Conclusion.
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Sheds light on what is specific to American Transcendentalism by comparing it with the atheistic vision of German philosophers and theologians like Ludwig Feuerbach and Arthur Schopenhauer. This book features a study that argues that atheism was part of the discursive and religious context from which Transcendentalism emerged..