"May we not see God?": Henry David Thoreau's Doctrine of Spiritual Senses

This article argues that Henry David Thoreau believed in the essential unity of the five senses and privileged each as a source of wild and divine knowledge, which, when combined, created a full picture that might result in a true approximation of God in and beyond nature - the hallmark of Thoreau&#...

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Main Author: Willsky-Ciollo, Lydia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2021
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2021, Volume: 114, Issue: 2, Pages: 265-287
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862 / Spiritual senses / Wildheit / Transcendentalism
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
NAB Fundamental theology
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Incarnation
B The Fall
B Spiritual Senses
B Henry David Thoreau
B Transcendentalism
B wildness
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