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Hall, Gary Richard.

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Emerson and the Bible: Transcendentalism as scriptural interpretation and revision.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Emerson and the Bible: Transcendentalism as scriptural interpretation and revision./
Author:	Hall, Gary Richard.
Description:	408 p.
Notes:	Chair: Barbara L. Packer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International50-06A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8919917

Emerson and the Bible: Transcendentalism as scriptural interpretation and revision.
Hall, Gary Richard.

Emerson and the Bible: Transcendentalism as scriptural interpretation and revision. - 408 p.

Chair: Barbara L. Packer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1989.

This dissertation examines the problems of Ralph Waldo Emerson's relationship to the text of the Bible and of his use and appropriation of biblical higher criticism in his ministerial and later careers. The dissertation starts from the premise that to call Emerson a "biblical" writer is not to claim for him a particular theological position. Departing both from recent scholarship which would construe Emerson as a lifelong Unitarian and from earlier scholarship which would claim Emerson as an entirely secular thinker, I argue that Emerson's theological education predisposed him to apply a biblical hermeneutics to literary texts. I also suggest that Emerson rejected both Unitarian theological and epistemological affirmations, and that Transcendentalism is more accurately conceived as revised scriptural discourse than it is as a mere subset of Unitarianism.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Emerson and the Bible: Transcendentalism as scriptural interpretation and revision.
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520 $a This dissertation examines the problems of Ralph Waldo Emerson's relationship to the text of the Bible and of his use and appropriation of biblical higher criticism in his ministerial and later careers. The dissertation starts from the premise that to call Emerson a "biblical" writer is not to claim for him a particular theological position. Departing both from recent scholarship which would construe Emerson as a lifelong Unitarian and from earlier scholarship which would claim Emerson as an entirely secular thinker, I argue that Emerson's theological education predisposed him to apply a biblical hermeneutics to literary texts. I also suggest that Emerson rejected both Unitarian theological and epistemological affirmations, and that Transcendentalism is more accurately conceived as revised scriptural discourse than it is as a mere subset of Unitarianism.
520 $a The dissertation undertakes this argument through the examination of primary manuscript sources (Emerson's "Vestry Lectures" and Sermons), through the examination of higher critical sources which Emerson himself consulted in preparing the "Vestry Lectures," and through the discussion of selected "canonical" performances in Emerson's mature career. The first chapter provides an overview of contemporary (literary and theological) ways of reading both the Bible and Emerson's theological career.
520 $a The second chapter discusses higher critical hermeneutics and Emerson's own biblicist method of interpretation. Chapter Three examines the "Vestry Lectures" in detail and suggests the eventual codification of the principles therein outlined in Representative Men and "Quotation and Originality." Chapter Four examines five of Emerson's previously unpublished sermons both as biblical proclamation and within the context of New England homiletical theory. This chapter concludes with a new reading of the "Divinity School Address" as both a statement on homiletics and as a response to the theories of Henry Ware, Jr. The dissertation argues for a re-evaluation of Emerson as an original theologian and biblical critic of considerable prescience.
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