Title Between faith and unbelief : American transcendentalists and the challenge of atheism / by Elisabeth Hurth.

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Leiden : Brill, 2007.

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Description	1 online resource (219 pages).
Series	Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 136
	Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 136.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- "The spirit of infidelity" : Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harvard's early Göttingen 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 Böhme -- "A world without God" : Emerson and Arthur Schopenhauer -- Conclusion.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	This book sets out to shed light on what ios specific to American Transcendentalism by comparing it with the atheistic vision of German philosophers and theologians like Ludwig Feuerbach and Arthur Schopenhauer.
Subject	Transcendentalism (New England) -- History.
	Atheism -- Germany -- History.
	Atheism -- Philosophy.
	Transcendentalism -- History.
	RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
	PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Idealism.
	RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
	Transcendentalisten.
	Atheïsme.
	United States.
Added Title	American transcendentalists and the challenge of atheism
Other Form:	Print version: Hurth, Elisabeth, 1961- Between faith and unbelief. Leiden : Brill ; [Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin, distributor], ©2007 9789004161665 900416166X (OCoLC)137222293
Standard No.	10.1163/ej.9789004161665.i-224 doi
ISBN	9047421264 (electronic bk.)
	9789047421269 (electronic bk.)

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