New World Metaphysics

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Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American Experience

Giles Gunn(Editor)

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Published on 4. June 1981

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I: PRESENTIMENTS (1492-1607)
Anonymous
From Saga of Eric the Red (ca. 1000)
Christopher Columbus (1451?-1506)
From Letter of Lord Raphael Sanchez, Treasurer to Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Spain, on his First Voyage (1492)
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)
From Mundus Novus (Letter on His Third Voyage to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco de' Medici, 1503)
Peter Martyr (1455-1526)
From De Orbe Novo (1511)
François Rabelais (1495?-1533)
From Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)
Thomas More (1478-1535)
From Utopia (1551)
Richard Eden (1521-1576)
From The Decades of the New World or West India by Peter Martyr (1555)
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
From "Of Cannibals" (1580)
Thomas Hariot (1560-1621)
From Brief and True Report of the New-found Land of Virginia (1588)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1544-1618)
From The Discovery of Guiana (1595)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
To the Virginian Voyage
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
From The Tempest (1611)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
From The New Atlantis (1627)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
From The Church Militant (1633)
II: PREPARATIONS (1607-1740)
Alexander Whitaker (1585-1616?)
From Good Newes from Virginia (1613)
John Smith (1580-1631)
From A Description of New England (1616)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
From A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth (sometimes called Mourt's Relation, 1622)
John Cotton (1584-1652)
From "Gods Promise to His Plantations" (1630)
John Winthrop (1587-1649)
From "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630)
Thomas Morton (1590?-1647)
From New English Canaan (1637)
Roger Williams (1613-1683)
From The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644)
From The Hireling Ministry None of Christs (1652)
William Bradford (1590-1657)
From Of Plymouth Plantation (1630-1651)
Anne Bradstrcet (1612?-1672)
To My Dear Children" (1672)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment" (1678)
To My Dear and Loving Husband" (1678)
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666" (1678)
Edward Taylor (1644?-1729)
Huswifery
Meditation One" (1682)
Mary Rowlandson (1635?-1678?)
From Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)
William Penn (1644-1718)
Preface to the [Pennsylvania] Frame of Government" (1682)
From Primitive Christianity Revived (1696)
Germantown Quakers
Quaker Resolution Against Slavery (1688)
Cotton Mather (1633-1728)
From Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
III: LOOMINGS( 1740-1830)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
From A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Word of God (1737)
From Personal Narrative (1740)
From A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746)
From Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World (1765)
Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1766)
From A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers (1750)
John Woolman (1720-1772)
From "Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes" (1754)
Thomas Jefferson (1734-1826)
From Autobiography (The Framing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776)
From Notes on the State of Virginia (1785)
An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom" (1786)
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1818)
From Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
From The Autobiography (1784, 1788)
James O'Kelly (1735?-1826)
From Essay on Negro-Slavery (1789)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
From "Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion, and the Superiority of the Former over the Latter" (1804)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
From The Prairie [The Death of Natty Bumppo] (1827)
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
From "Unitarian Christianity" (1830)
IV: REALIZATIONS (1830-1915)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
From Nature (1836)
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Young Goodman Brown" (1846)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
From Moby-Dick (1851)
From Pierre (1852)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
From Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Black American Folk Songs
Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere
Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jerico
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Go Down, Moses
I Know Moonrise
Run, Nigger, Run
Jump, Jim Crow
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
From Walden
or, Life in the Woods (1854)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Preface from Leaves of Grass (1855)
From Song of the Open Road (1855)
As Adam, Early in the Morning" (1860)
Facing West from California's Shores" (1860)
Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865)
Years of the Modern" (1865)
A Noiseless, Patient Spider" (1862-1863)
From Democratic Vistas (1871)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
There's a certain Slant of light" (ca. 1861)
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (ca. 1861)
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-" (ca. 1862)
It was not Death, for I stood up" (ca. 1862)
My period had come for Prayer-" (ca. 1862)
Presentiment-is that long Shadow-on the lawn-" (ca. 1863)
Finding is the first Act" (ca. 1864)
The Missing All-prevented Me" (ca. 1865)
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-" (ca. 1868)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Letter to Horace Greeley" (1862)
Meditation on the Divine Will" (1862)
Gettysburg Address" (1863)
Second Inaugural Address" (1865)
Henry James, Senior (1811-1882)
From The Secret of Swedenborg (1869)
Mr. Emerson (1884)
Horace Bushnell (1802-1876)
From Our Gospel a Gift to the Imagination (1869)
Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
From LaSalle and the Discovery of the Great West (1869)
North American Indian Oratory
Chief Powhatan (1609)
Chief Logan (1774)
Chief Pachgantschilias (1787)
Chief Tecumseh (1810)
Chief Sharitarish (1822)
Chief Cobb (1843)
Chief Seattle (1854)
Chief Joseph (1879)
W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963)
From The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The War Prayer" (1904)
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
From The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
William James (1842-1910)
From "Is Life Worth Living?" (1895)
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)
From The Religion of the Future (1909)
Josiah Royce (1855-1916)
From The Sources of Religious Insight (1912)
George Santayana (1863-1952)
From Winds of Doctrine (1913)
John Jay Chapman (1862-1933)
Coatesville" (1915)
V: REJECTIONS AND REVISIONS (1915-1950)
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
From "Puritanism as a Literary Force" (1917)
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918)
From A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917)
Shailer Mathews (1863-1941)
From The Faith of Modernism (1924)
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
Shine, Perishing Republic" (1924)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
From In the American Gram (1925)
Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970)
From The Modem Temper (1929)
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge" (1930)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Marina" (1930)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
A Clean Well-Lighted Place" (1933)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
From A Common Faith (1934)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Idea of Order at Key West" (1935)
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
From Beyond Tragedy (1937)
James Agee (1909-1955)
From Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Most of It" (1941)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
What Are Years?" (1941)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The Old People" (1942)
VI: RECOVERIES (1950-1980)
Bernard Malamud (1914- )
The Loan" (1953)
Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
Religion as a Dimension in Man's Spiritual Life" (1954)
Richard Wilbur (1921- )
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" (1956)
H. Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962)
From Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (1960)
James Wright (1927-1980)
A Blessing
James Baldwin (1924- )
From The Fire Next Time (1964)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
From The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1963)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
The Abyss" (1964)
Richard Rubenstein (1924- )
From After Auschwitz (1966)
Schubert M. Ogden (1928- )
From "How Does God Function in Human Life?" (1967)
Norman Mailer (1923- )
From The Armies of the Night (1968)
Henry G. Bugbee (1915- )
Wilderness in America" (1974)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Thanks-Offering for Recovery" (1977)

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