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Transcendental Ideas: Religion

"Comparison of Early American Theologies", from R. W. Horton and H. W. Edwards, Backgrounds of American Literary Thought

"Mountaintops and Riverbanks as Pulpits: A Transcendental Return to Nature", by Christopher Baratta, Binghamton U, NY

"Heaven on Earth: the Legacy of 19th Century Transcendentalism as an Ecumenical Philosophy of Nature" by Meg Brulatour, VCU

"Transcendentalism for the New Age", sermon by Jane Rosecrans, 2005.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Emerson's "Divinity School Address". Web Study Text. Rebecca Moon.
"'Tempest in a Washbowl': Emerson vs. the Unitarians"by Ann Woodlief, VCU
Emerson's final sermon to his congregation on Web Site "The Lord's Supper"

Theodore Parker


"The Transient and Permanent in Christianity," sermon by Theodore Parker
"Theodore Parker and Christianity" by Lee Gentry, VCU
"Critical Theology of Theodore Parker" John Edward Dirks.

William Ellery Channing


William Ellery Channing and Unitarian Identity" by Robert Michael Ruehl (2011)
"William Ellery Channing's Theology: God, Christ, Humanity, and Self-Culture" by Robert Michael Ruehl (2011)

Henry David Thoreau


Thoreau,  Web Site Chapter on "Sunday"  from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers "Thoreau and Taoism," David T.Y. Ch'en

George Ripley


"Discourse on the Philosophy of Religion [I]," George Ripley.

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