American Literature / Unit 7 AML 0602 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Unitarianism, Kant, and the Road to Concord
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The idea
The movement drew on German and British Romanticism, on the higher criticism that studied the Bible's origins, on Kant, and on German Idealism with its distinction between appearances and things in themselves. It began among New England Unitarians who had already loosened Calvinism's grip.
In practice
German idealism, arriving in Massachusetts.
Where people slip
The movement grew out of liberal Christianity.
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