William Ellery Channing

An Essay on the Liberal Spirit in America

Andrew Delbanco

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Publication Date: 04/06/1981

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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

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