[Zionist Conspirator]

I've always been astounded at the silence of American Fundamentalist Protestants at Norman Vincent Peale's "theology." Everyone else was fair game but Peale was rarely if ever mentioned. Perhaps it was his political conservatism that shielded him? There have long been political conservatives who were theological liberals, such as James Fifield and Robert H.W. Welch Jr. (founder of the John Birch Society). Welch, the "ultimate" right wing extremist, was also a Unitarian, an evolutionist, and an admirer of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Way back in the early 70s a local TV station carried his weekly sermons from Marble Collegiate Church in NYC. I was a thorough Fundamentalist Protestant back then and could only shake my head when I listened to him.

But I have a question for my friend wideawake: Is "transcendentalism" necessarily heretical? I know the New England Transcendentalists were certainly heretics from an orthodox chrstian perspective, but at the very root isn't "transcendentalism" merely a recognition of certain truths that "transcend" the facts of science and materialism?

[fishtank]

“....and Robert H.W. Welch Jr. (founder of the John Birch Society). Welch, the “ultimate” right wing extremist, was also a Unitarian, an evolutionist, and an admirer of Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

Wow.

Just wow.

I did NOT know that.... disappointing.

[TBP]

Is "transcendentalism" necessarily heretical?

I remember when we studied Emerson in American Lit in college. The class got into a big argument over immanence vs. transcendence. Maybe theyu were both right.