William Ellery Channing

An Essay on the Liberal Spirit in America

Andrew Delbanco

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    Prologue: Family, Childhood, Youth

    1. Nature

    2. The Flight from History

    3. Language and the Neutrality of Scripture

    4. Slavery and the Problem of Evil

    5. Channing and Romanticism

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: William Ellery Channing

Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Among his many publications are The Puritan Ordeal and The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (both from Harvard).