...Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore...But what a distortion did his doctrine and memory surfer in the same, in the next, and in the following ages! ... He spoke of miracles; for he felt that...

...ploughed into the history of this world," insisted: "One man was true to what is in you and me. He [Jesus] saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world."16 Such fervent stands on behalf of man and his freedom, and deaths suffered on behalf of freedom,...

...holy writ and then offer an interpretation. Emerson the strong reader feels free to strongly rewrite: "I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, speaks....see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think." What devout Christians do with this passage ultimately depends upon their own experience and some attention...

...estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and 204 The Poet of the Spirit me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore...see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think." Therefore, Emerson went on to say, "it is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not...

...informed the pronouncements of Hegel's intellectual descendants. Emerson declared with blithe confidence that "God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world"; for Nietzsche, the true interpreter is an artist, one who refuses to "[lie] in the dust before petty...

...(15 July 1838), [Jesus] estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore...see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think." (Essays and Lectures, 80) Parker, in "A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity" (19...

...estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God 1ncarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take...see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think." (Essays and Lectures, 80 ) Parker, in "A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity"...

...the divinity within every individual. Emerson thus radically democratized Jesus' claim of divinity: "He said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, 'I am...see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think'" (CW, 1:81). Emerson was inviting controversy with these remarks, but he saw himself as an awakener,...

...Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore...suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages I There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding. The understanding...

...beauty and harmony of the soul. In Emerson's rendering, Jesus taught with singular spiritual insight "that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world." In his "jubilee of sublime emotion," Jesus proclaimed his own divinity, taught others to see God in...