The Catholic Historical Review, July 1st, 2003
American American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism. By Dean Grodzins. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 632. $39.95.) Among American religious movements, Transcendentalism stirs nearly continual scholarly interest. Intellectualism is part of the Transcendentalists' appeal. Literate and literary, they left an extensive and elegant record. More profoundly, they enacted an American theological drama by taking the Protestant reformers' mind-set to a logical conclusion: if both Church and Bible are flawed authorities, might not individuals better tur...
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