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ILLUMINATING EMERSON'S SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20030702
Author:Richard Higgins, Globe Correspondent
Even now, as we mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, people still believe that Ralph Waldo Emerson left the ministry in 1832. He resigned the pastorate of the Second Church of Boston, yes, but as Elizabeth Parker Peabody and others have noted, he took the pulpit with him and carted it around for 40 years. Emerson could no more have stopped being a minister than he could have stopped being Emerson.
As David M. Robinson makes clear in "The Spiritual Emerson," Emerson's four years of parish ministry were the foundation and springboard for his lifelong project of spiritual and moral ...
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