Wilderness Lost: The Religious Origins of the American MindThis book establishes that there is a consistent tradition of wilderness imagery in American literature, A psychological reading of theology is applied to the writings of such authors as Thomas Hooker, Jonathan Edwards, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson. |
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... Canaan and the Wilderness 46 896 23 PART II Revolutionary Identity 3 The Great Awakening of Fear 83 4 Revival and Revolution 111 PART III The Literary Remains 5 The Transcendental Growth 149 6 Hawthorne , Very , and Dickinson : The ...
... Canaan and the Wilderness 46 896 23 PART II Revolutionary Identity 3 The Great Awakening of Fear 83 4 Revival and Revolution 111 PART III The Literary Remains 5 The Transcendental Growth 149 6 Hawthorne , Very , and Dickinson : The ...
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... Canaan " was that used by the New England Calvinists to articulate their own experience . Using it , we enter into the language and imagery used in Puritan New England . By using the words of their myth - making we can be more sensitive ...
... Canaan " was that used by the New England Calvinists to articulate their own experience . Using it , we enter into the language and imagery used in Puritan New England . By using the words of their myth - making we can be more sensitive ...
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... Canaan . They intended to create a spiritual community in which divine vision could be sought without the restraints and temptations of worldly pursuits . Their goal was a spiritual freedom toward which political freedom was only a ...
... Canaan . They intended to create a spiritual community in which divine vision could be sought without the restraints and temptations of worldly pursuits . Their goal was a spiritual freedom toward which political freedom was only a ...
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... Canaan ; it was the world itself in which the faith of God's people constantly had to be tried ; and , by no means least , it was the wilderness of human con- sciousness , the howling chaos in the depths of the mind into which every ...
... Canaan ; it was the world itself in which the faith of God's people constantly had to be tried ; and , by no means least , it was the wilderness of human con- sciousness , the howling chaos in the depths of the mind into which every ...
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... wilderness that brought God's people to the promised land of Canaan . The wilderness was a sanctuary from Pharoah's army , but it was also a place of trial and temptation . It was the place where the Jews were The Wilderness 25.
... wilderness that brought God's people to the promised land of Canaan . The wilderness was a sanctuary from Pharoah's army , but it was also a place of trial and temptation . It was the place where the Jews were The Wilderness 25.
Contents
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New England Canaan and the Wilderness | 46 |
The Great Awakening of Fear | 83 |
Revival and Revolution | 111 |
The Transcendental Growth | 149 |
Hawthorne Very and Dickinson The Wilderness of the Mind | 180 |
Herman Melville The Watery Wilderness | 213 |
Wilderness Lost Oliver Wendell Holmes and the OneHoss Shay | 235 |
9 Conclusion | 249 |
Notes | 254 |
Bibliography | 274 |
Index | 287 |
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Page 111 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face, of the serpent.
Page 46 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 216 - And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
Page 36 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 18 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Page 235 - HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it— ah, but stay...
Page 33 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 28 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 227 - He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad.