The Virtue of Emerson's Imitation of Christ: From William Ellery Channing to John Brown.
Christians have traditionally conceived of the moral life as an imitation of Christ, whereby followers enter into fellowship with God. The American Transcendentalists can be understood as extending rather than dispensing with this legacy. For Emerson, a person cultivates virtues by imitating those s...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religious Ethics Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 510 - 539 |
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