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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... culture that speaks di- rectly to the alienated twentieth century from the heart of seventeenth - century piety . A psychological reading of the- ology is applied to an analysis of Amer- ican culture - from the writings of Thomas Hooker ...
... culture that speaks di- rectly to the alienated twentieth century from the heart of seventeenth - century piety . A psychological reading of the- ology is applied to an analysis of Amer- ican culture - from the writings of Thomas Hooker ...
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... letters are quoted by permission of the Massachusetts Historical Society . The photographs on the jacket were taken by Larry Higgins of Hamilton , Va . Introduction i At the very beginning of American culture , 10 Acknowledgments.
... letters are quoted by permission of the Massachusetts Historical Society . The photographs on the jacket were taken by Larry Higgins of Hamilton , Va . Introduction i At the very beginning of American culture , 10 Acknowledgments.
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... culture , freedom was valued because it was the means of salvation , and the means of freedom was an experi- ence of terror called the Fear of God . To pass from the tyranny of structure to the liberation of spirit required a purifying ...
... culture , freedom was valued because it was the means of salvation , and the means of freedom was an experi- ence of terror called the Fear of God . To pass from the tyranny of structure to the liberation of spirit required a purifying ...
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... culture needs to be seen from the perspective of colonial America's foremost Calvinist preacher , Jonathan Edwards . When the categories used to interpret literature are drawn from disciplines or worldviews alien to that culture , the ...
... culture needs to be seen from the perspective of colonial America's foremost Calvinist preacher , Jonathan Edwards . When the categories used to interpret literature are drawn from disciplines or worldviews alien to that culture , the ...
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... cultural heritage . " 3 All who would place a structure of interpretation on culture are myth - makers and should heed this advice . One result of not doing so can be a forced and unsympathetic reading that discourages further study ...
... cultural heritage . " 3 All who would place a structure of interpretation on culture are myth - makers and should heed this advice . One result of not doing so can be a forced and unsympathetic reading that discourages further study ...
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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American Antinomian antitype Arminian Awakening behavior believed Boston called Calvinism Calvinist Cambridge Canaan century children of Israel Christ Christian church consciousness conversion Cotton Cotton Mather covenant culture darkness depravity desert divine doctrine doubt Egypt Emily Dickinson England eternal evangelical experience faith fear God's grace Hawthorne heart heaven hell Herman Melville Holmes's holy Hooker human Ibid identity imagined John Jonathan Edwards letters liberty literal wilderness Lord madness Mary Moody Emerson Mather Melville Melville's mind MME-RWE Moby-Dick mystic Nathaniel Hawthorne nature ness never Oliver Wendell Holmes perception Perry Miller poem preached promised land Puritan Ralph Waldo Emerson rational regeneration religion religious Revolution saints salvation scripture self-love sense sermon shay Shepard sinners sojourn soul spiritual Stoddard subconscious symbol terror Testament theology Thomas Thomas Hooker Thoreau thought tion Transcendental trials true truth Typology University Press vision wilderness imagery wilderness tradition Williams worldly wrath wrote York Zion
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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.