Transcendentalism+josea09

Was created by philosophers

An attempt to create a new body of literature

Followers were ppl struggling to define spiritually and religion

Was a historic act in that people wanted to make american literature different from england after the revolution

Transcendentalism: A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.

Transcendental: Surpassing all others; superior. Beyond common thought or experience; mystical or supernatural.

Did not believe that Jesus was a savior, but a leader to "absolute religion"

They believed Jesus was not God's son, but he reached the full potential of his humanity

Tried to find perfection like God by trying to reach full potential like Jesus did