VIRTUAL: The Riddle of Thoreau’s Religion

Thursday, July 24 at 6:30PM

Richard Higgins will discuss his new book Thoreau’s God, which explores Thoreau’s spirituality, his perception of God in nature and his sense of the sacred in the ordinary. Thoreau was a harsh critic of the “respectable” Christianity of his day, but he was religious to the bone and had a profound sense of the holy. Richard presents Thoreau as a religious thinker who tried to separate the universal religious impulse from its 19th-century institutional context. In essence, Thoreau 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 eclectic, experiential spirituality is resonating with spiritual seekers in America today. Register HERE.