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American heretic : Theodore Parker and transcendentalism / Dean Grodzins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 631 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0807862045
  • 9780807862049
  • 9780807827109
  • 080782710X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: American heretic.DDC classification:
  • 289.1/092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • BX9869.P3 G76 2002eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Preface; Note on Transcription; 1. This World of Joys and Sorrows; 2. An Immense Change in My Opinions; 3. Period of Disappointment; 4. I Preach Abundant Heresies; 5. All the Force of Transcendentalism That Is in Me; 6. Absolute Religion; Section of Illustrations; 7. I Can Stand Alone; 8. Recovery, Observation, and Thought; 9. Shut In for My Own Good; 10. The Ashes of My Success; Afterword: A Long, Long Warfare Opens before Me; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Theodore Parker was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and Jesus, a brilliant scholar, an agitator for women's rights, an abolitionist and one of the intellectuals who shaped transcendentalism. This account covers hidden facets of his life as well as his public profile.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)99934

Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-610) and index.

Print version record.

Preface; Note on Transcription; 1. This World of Joys and Sorrows; 2. An Immense Change in My Opinions; 3. Period of Disappointment; 4. I Preach Abundant Heresies; 5. All the Force of Transcendentalism That Is in Me; 6. Absolute Religion; Section of Illustrations; 7. I Can Stand Alone; 8. Recovery, Observation, and Thought; 9. Shut In for My Own Good; 10. The Ashes of My Success; Afterword: A Long, Long Warfare Opens before Me; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Theodore Parker was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and Jesus, a brilliant scholar, an agitator for women's rights, an abolitionist and one of the intellectuals who shaped transcendentalism. This account covers hidden facets of his life as well as his public profile.

English.