• Preface
• 
  Emerson’s Address
• The Divinity School Address
• Moral Sentiment
• Religious Sentiment
• The Christian Church
• The First Defect: Jesus as God
• The Second Defect: Revelation has Ended
• True Christianity
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  The Enduring Significance of Emerson’s Divinity School Address
• The Enduring Significance
• This Invitation Was Official
• A Whispering Campaign
• Thunder In The Air
• Miracles
• Dead God–Dead Preaching
• Infidelity In Christian Name!
• Ware Qualifies His Qualifications
• Channing’s Approval Was Silent
• Shackled Unitarianism
• A New Orthodoxy
• Man The Divine
• Clearing The Road To Mysticism
• Watering Our Neighbors’ Gardens
• Emerson’s Unrecorded Influence
• Emerson In Dilution
• Our Early Secular Thought
• Lincoln And Whitman
• No Final Word
• Our Times Await A Tougher Emerson

Preface

When Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838, the address was condemned by Professor Andrews Norton as "The Latest form of Infidielity."

One hundred years later, this intensely controversial address at the beginning of the Transcendentalist movement in American religion and literature was celebrated by the American Unitarian Association in a Ware Lecture at its annual meeting addressed by Dr. John Haynes Holmes of the Community Church of New York.