VARIETIES OF TRANSCENDENTAL EXPERIENCE: A STUDY IN CONSTRUCTIVE POSTMODERNISM.(Review)

Theological Studies | March 1, 2001| | Copyright

VARIETIES OF TRANSCENDENTAL EXPERIENCE: A STUDY IN CONSTRUCTIVE POSTMODERNISM. By Donald L. Gelpi, S.J. Collegeville: Liturgical, 2000. Pp. xii + 364. $34.95.

The title of this book is misleading. It might be more aptly named "A Survey of American Religious Thought: Deism, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, and Pragmatism." The bulk of the work consists of chapters summarizing the religious thought of Benjamin Franklin, militant Deism, Unitarianism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, Orestes Brownson, Francis Ellingwood Abbott, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Josiah ...

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