The final volume in the series focuses on a crossroads in
Emerson's life, the year 1832, when he resigned from his ministry
at the Second Church of Boston. It includes a new and more accurate
text of the single most important of Emerson's sermons, "The Lord's
Supper Sermon." For the first time, this sermon has been
transcribed from the manuscript Emerson actualy read from on the
occasion of its only delivery. The sermon was not only pivotal in
Emerson's career, it was historically important because of the
controversy that ensued over formalism in religion.
Volume 4 presents annotated texts of eight occasional sermons in
addition to twenty-seven regular sermons, and an annotated text of
relevant portions of the official records of the Second Church of
Boston during Emerson's ministry. The sermons-most appearing in
print for the first time-provide a thorough understanding of the
evolution of Emerson's thought in the years immediately preceding
the 1836 publication of "Nature," a treatise of central importance
to nineteenth-century American literature.
Transcribed and edited from manuscripts in Harvard's
University's Houghton Library, the sermons are presented in a clear
text approximating as nearly as possible the original version
delivered to Emerson's congregation. As well as the detailed
chronology, explanatory footnotes, and textual endnotes found in
previous volumes, this one contains a comprehensive index to the
entire four-volume collection. Such outstanding textual scholarship
makes this edition a unique entrance into the spiritual life of a
man who so profoundly influenced American thought.
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