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The Educated Heart

13 Friday Nov 2015

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“The Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ”

The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

by Robert Fogarty

For graduate students of my generation there was no more monumental figure than Perry Miller of Harvard. His two-volume intellectual history of Puritanism, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, was erudite, sophisticated, and challenging as he explored the various covenants that vied for authority, both civil and ecclesiastical. The covenants of grace and work were explored within traditions that traced their roots back to the Reformation and Continental philosophy. It was rumored that only Miller and a handful of his colleagues really understood the struggles between the Arminians and the Antinomians even though Miller’s seminar was famous for both its intellectual rigor and the ways that graduate students botched Miller’s work. Anecdotally it was said that after one seminar he buried his head in his hands and uttered a scatological expletive. Continue reading →

Winter 2015 Issue of The Antioch Review – A Perspective by Editor, Robert Fogarty

10 Tuesday Feb 2015

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Encounters

by Robert Fogarty

AR cover winter 2015, 73

There are few passages in the whole of American literature that are more shocking than the one cited in our opening essay “Birds of the New World” by John Nelson that chronicles the reactions of visitors to America as they saw the bountiful array of birds on our shores.  It is from Hector St. Jean De Crèvecouer’s Letters of An American Farmer wherein he writes of his encounter with a caged slave in South Carolina that terrifies him.

Most of Crèvecouer’s observations about colonial America were benign and admirable, but this one shakes him to the core. Nelson quotes from the British historian Keith Thomas who wrote that man’s view of birds was an “odd mixture of superstition, moral judgment, competition, gratuitous cruelty and fond familiarity.”

Encounters, by chance or otherwise, are the stuff of history, astronomy, and anthropology as humankind moved outward beyond the self or inward from self. Melville’s reading of Hawthorne’s Mosses From an Old Manse, for example, came with the shock of recognition that he was in the presence of a the greatest author America had produced: ”For genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.”  Continue reading →

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