Donald L. Gelpi, S.J. is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.

...presents a detailed description, based on a careful examination of his witings, of the religious progress of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Theology Digest This rewarding work is the first systematic study of Emerson as a religious thinker... Theological Studies ...a more systematic reconstruction of Emerson's religious thought than has yet been contributed, whether by scholars of religion or American literature. Critical Review ...a more systematic reconstruction of Emerson's religious thought than has yet been contributed, whether by scholars of religion or American literature. Critical Review ...presents a detailed description, based on a careful examination of his witings, of the religious progress of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Theology Digest This rewarding work is the first systematic study of Emerson as a religious thinker... Theological Studies

• Spiritualist discernment; the saturnalia of faith; the philosophy of bias; the higher civility; the natural history of intellect; the endless seeker - a case study in expressive religious individualism; and the world of the transparent eyeball.

Donald L. Gelpi, S.J. is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.

...presents a detailed description, based on a careful examination of his witings, of the religious progress of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Theology Digest This rewarding work is the first systematic study of Emerson as a religious thinker... Theological Studies ...a more systematic reconstruction of Emerson's religious thought than has yet been contributed, whether by scholars of religion or American literature. Critical Review ...a more systematic reconstruction of Emerson's religious thought than has yet been contributed, whether by scholars of religion or American literature. Critical Review ...presents a detailed description, based on a careful examination of his witings, of the religious progress of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Theology Digest This rewarding work is the first systematic study of Emerson as a religious thinker... Theological Studies

• Spiritualist discernment; the saturnalia of faith; the philosophy of bias; the higher civility; the natural history of intellect; the endless seeker - a case study in expressive religious individualism; and the world of the transparent eyeball.