Doctor Lore
Nov 286 min read
When Americans Tried to Become Gods: Why I’m Researching 19th-Century Apotheosis
Something remarkable happened in American religious thought in the early nineteenth century: instead of emphasizing human sinfulness and dependence upon divine grace, more and more preachers, essayists, and religious innovators began to speak as if human beings were, in some sense, divine, or at least capable of becoming so. That shift in how Americans understood what it means to be human and the relationship between humanity and divinity is at the core of my dissertation res
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