Sacramental Communion with Nature: From Emerson on the Lord's Supper to Thoreau's Transcendental Picnic

For both Emerson and Thoreau, ocular attentiveness was a crucial means of at least disposing the soul toward experiencing moments of otherwise unpredictable, ecstatic encounter with the divine soul of Nature. But the eye alone was not the sole sensory pathway toward receiving such revelations. Espec...

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Main Author: Gatta, John (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-9
Further subjects:B Nature
B Communion
B Thoreau
B Lord's Supper
B Transcendentalism
B Emerson
B Sacrament
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