Henry David Thoreau was a twenty-year-old scholarship student at Harvard when he met Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. Emerson, fourteen years Thoreau's senior and independently wealthy, had recently shaken the intellectual world of New England with the publication of Nature. Despite the disparity in their circumstances, Thoreau and Emerson quickly formed a close relationship that lasted until Thoreau's death at the age of forty-four. This book tells the story of their friendship. Harmon Smith emphasizes their personal bond, but also shows how their relationship affected their thought and...
Henry David Thoreau was a twenty-year-old scholarship student at Harvard when he met Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. Emerson, fourteen years Thoreau's...
Smith shows how worship and sacrament are meant to engender personal and social holiness, and how such elements as the eucharist and baptism are inextricably tied to how Christians understand the moral nature of capital punishment, pacifism and warfare, surrogacy, and physician-assisted suicide.
Smith shows how worship and sacrament are meant to engender personal and social holiness, and how such elements as the eucharist and baptism are inext...
