... as her response to a challenge posed by William Ellery Channing: to add an accession of feeling to overly-cool Unitarianism. Redwood responds to Channing’s challenge and to the period’s larger orthodox backlash against Unitarianism by reconciling liberalism with the conviction of belief...

...This chapter traces the intellectual history of the canon among liberal Christians of the nineteenth century. Beginning with Hicksite Quakers, it moves through William Ellery Channing's Unitarianism, the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, the transition...

... Harvard University Hicksites Quakers Ralph Waldo Emerson Shakers Transcendentalism Unitarians Wilburites William Ellery Channing Religious dissent flourished in the United States during the nineteenth century. While evangelical Protestantism held a hegemonic position in American culture, plenty...

...This chapter focuses on William Ellery Channing, his visit to Europe, and his meetings with Wordsworth and Coleridge. Channing's religious views had made him a controversial figure: his early training had been for the Congregational Church, but he had increasingly urged on his contemporaries...

...) and indirect (structural or cultural) types of violence. In 1848 Karl Marx called for direct violence and the establishment of a “red republic.” Previously, William Ellery Channing had responded to economic crisis in the United States with an argument for republican self-culture, while Orestes Brownson called...

... abolition American Colonization Society Chillocothe Resolutions Albert Barnes Charles Finney General Assembly William Ellery Channing E. N. Elliott New School Old School Southern Presbyterians While fissures were widening among Presbyterians on the issues of revivalism and voluntary societies...

... Frederick Grégoire Abbé Best Stephen Crystal Palace in London Northern states rights Fort de Joux Haitian Revolution Louvre Vendôme Column Vincent tyranny Napoleon moral reasoning William Ellery Channing Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson John Abbott William Wells Brown individualism...

...This chapter introduces the antebellum antislavery moderates, including William Ellery Channing, Moses Stuart, and Francis Wayland. It explores the moderates’ theological roots in New England Calvinism and their predominantly Congregationalist, New School Presbyterian, and Baptist denominational...

... of William Ellery Channing and Boston Unitarianism and discusses the conceptual life of spirituality within a burgeoning spiritualist subculture. DeLillo Don Roof Wade Clark spirituality concept and anti Catholic sentiment Taylor Charles affect Bender Courtney Butler Jon circulation blood...

... to acknowledge in public.” Within a very few years, however, the pledge took on a new significance for how people viewed the associational bonds of American civil society. When in 1829 William Ellery Channing fired the first salvo in a new assault on the American embrace of association as something potentially...

... of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It also details Very's visit to William Ellery Channing and accounts of their conversation. Brazer John Emerson Ralph Waldo McLean Hospital Peabody Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Mary Quincy Josiah Kneeland Abner Hawthorne Nathaniel Howes Frederick Peabody Eliza Peabody George...

... transcendentalism William Ellery Channing Unitarianism conversation Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Soon after her nephew Waldo abandoned the pulpit in 1832, Mary Emerson received a letter from an unusually ambitious young schoolteacher in Boston. The teacher was not yet thirty, but she had already written a series...