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150 YEARS LATER, EMERSON STILL HAS IMPACT
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The Boston Globe
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April 14, 1988
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Shortly before delivering his famous Divinity School Address, in
which he dismissed the notion of a personal God and presented Jesus
as a poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson confided that "my views chill or
shock people at the first opening."
He had good reason. After hearing the address, a prominent
Harvard theologian took to the pages of the Boston Daily Advertiser
to express his "disgust" at Emerson's "insurrection of folly." The
students who invited him were branded "accomplices to a great
offence."
A century and a half later, the Divinity School Address can
still jumpstart hearts -- of ministers and agnostics.
Last night, in the chapel where Emerson gave it in 1838, a
Harvard Divinity ...
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