Emerson's Harvard Divinity School Address

Join Plato's Cave philosophers and UU Inquiring Minds this Sunday morning, December 30 at 9:00.

Emerson's Harvard Divinity School Address

Coffee? Yes.
Feel free to bring treats to share.

Description
Emerson gave a controversial lecture to the graduating class of Harvard's Divinity School on July 15th, 1838. It criticized the church for teaching with second-hand knowledge and for being 'frozen' in time. Instead, Emerson proposed that ministers should use their personal experiences (first-hand knowledge) and also passion and intuition to find the truth. We will explore UU principle #4 (the responsible search for the truth), plus Dan will research what became of the six graduating Divinity School students who were present that night.

At the time, Harvard was the center of academic Unitarian thought. In his radical address, Emerson proclaimed many of the tenets of Transcendentalism against a more conventional Unitarian theology.

Dan provided these resources:

Free text online
https://emersoncentral.com/texts/nature-addresses-lectures/addresses/divinity-school-address/

Free audiobook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQjutzTSLEU

A brief history of Harvard's Divinity School
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/hds/1st-100/hds/19th-century-emerson

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