Speaker:- Peter Lineham

Worship Leader:- Ruby Johnson

Recorded @ Auckland Unitarian Church 28th April 2024

Ralph Waldo Emerson knew how to upset Unitarians, for he had been one of them. Emerson was from a Unitarian family, trained at Harvard College, and his brother William was educated at Gottingen and was a minister. Waldo became minister of Second Church Boston in 1829. But he took a break, after the death of his wife, and headed to Europe. Returning he wrote this extraordinary essay, Nature, from which I read. He was a mystery to his fellow Unitarians. In 1838 he spoke to the Divinity Class at Harvard, in words that caused a huge controversy...

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https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/the-american-transcendentalists/