Radical Discontinuities: American Romanticism and Christian ConsciousnessFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983 - 212 pages Contrasting scripture and art, faith and imagination, revelation and vision, the author argues for the provocative thesis that the American Romantic and Puritan traditions are irreconcilably opposed, and that they represent the collision of mutually exclusive worldviews. |
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Introduction | 9 |
Puritan Faith Romantic Imagination | 44 |
Space Time and Kierkegaardian | 79 |
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