Thoreau's God

by Richard Higgins

Meditative reflections on the great spiritual seeker's deeply felt experience of the divine.

Henry David Thoreau's spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau's passionate critique of formal religion is matched only by his rapturous descriptions of encounters with the divine in nature. He fled the church only to pursue a deeper communion with a presence he felt at the heart of the universe. He called this illimitable presence many names, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226827305
• ISBN13: 9780226827308
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages