It is a remarkable fact that American transcendentalism’s two best-known authors—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—lived within walking distance in the same small village of 2,000 souls.

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in ...

John A. Buehrens’s new book, “Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice” (Beacon) focuses less on the literature and more on the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Transcendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology in the name of nature. But the transcendentalist movement can actually be seen as ...

"Wait Whitman was a transcendentalist, a mystic, and a romanticist," said Professor Bliss Perry, in the seventh lecture of the series for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, "A mystic," Professor Perry went ...

(RNS) The author of 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods,' who was born 200 years ago this week, was a Transcendentalist. Let us 'Splain . . . (RNS) — The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to do” ...

Immerse yourself in the hyper-stylized plant life, a captivating star, a splendiferous white swan regaled in a gilded head piece and neck band, a crimson serpentine force slithering across the ...