Transcendental Sacramentals
"The Lord's Supper" and Emerson's Doctrine of Form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16306193 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ivy Schweitzer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 398 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/366287 |
| OpenAlex | W2321621097 |
| Language | EN |
IT is altogether appropriate that Emerson resigned from the ministry and took up his new but analogous calling in literature as a result of a controversy over the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. As heir to a religious, intellectual, and personal history haunted by sacramental controversy, he wrestled with sacramentalism's broad implications for the very basis of representation--the relationship of visible/ natural sign to invisible/supernatural signified.' His mature statement on the literary vocation, The Poet (1842), opens with the indictment There is no doctrine of forms in our
Doctrine · Epistemology · Supper · Theology · Transcendental number · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Highly cited | No |
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