Orestes Brownson (1803-1876)
Here is an all-too-brief article about the fascinating and little-known 19th Century thinker: What would Orestes Brownson do?
I have a recently purchased copy of Orestes Brownson's The American Republic sitting on the shelf behind me.
Brownson's spiritual journey lead him from Presbyterianism to Universalism, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, and finally Catholicism. Conversion to the Catholic Church was a lot more radical in the 19th Century than it is today, and his fellow Transcendentalists, who never really accepted him due to reasons of social class, completely rejected him after his conversion.
Orestes Brownson was an anti-war, anti-capiltalist, anti-slavery, political and religious conservative.
Here is an all-too-brief article about the fascinating and little-known 19th Century thinker: What would Orestes Brownson do?
I have a recently purchased copy of Orestes Brownson's The American Republic sitting on the shelf behind me.
Brownson's spiritual journey lead him from Presbyterianism to Universalism, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, and finally Catholicism. Conversion to the Catholic Church was a lot more radical in the 19th Century than it is today, and his fellow Transcendentalists, who never really accepted him due to reasons of social class, completely rejected him after his conversion.
Orestes Brownson was an anti-war, anti-capiltalist, anti-slavery, political and religious conservative.
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