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Book Talk: The Unseen and Unheard: Thoreau’s Religious Quest

HDS alum Richard Higgins, the author of Thoreau’s God, explores Henry David Thoreau as an original voice in American religion. Although a harsh critic of the Christianity of his day, Thoreau was religious to the bone and had a profound sense of the holy. His critique of churches was matched only by his rapturous encounters with the divine in nature. Richard presented Thoreau as a religious thinker who, in a period of upheaval, sought to divorce the religious sentiment from its nineteenth-century institutional context. In essence, he was a mystic who, while firmly moored to the earth, was on a quest to commune with a divine mystery that was both immanent in the natural world and transcendent. He called this illimitable presence many names, but he often called it God. Thoreau’s iconoclastic theological vision and experiential spirituality are resonating with spiritual seekers in America today.       RICHARD HIGGINS is a writer, book coach, and the author or editor of five books, including, most recently, Thoreau’s God (University of Chicago Press, 2024), which explores Thoreau’s iconoclastic religious quest, and Thoreau and the Language of Trees (University of Chicago Press, 2017), about Thoreau’s multifaceted love of trees. A Boston Globe staff writer for 20 years, Richard is a member of the Thoreau Society board. A graduate of Holy Cross College, Columbia Journalism School, and Harvard Divinity School (MTS), Richard has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Century, American Scholar, and other publications.   For more information on the CSWR: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/ For more information on the CSWR's Transcendentalism Initiative: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research...