Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings and the Transcendental movement he help

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings and the Transcendental movement he helped launch reflected a desire

A) to reaffirm the legitimacy of formal, orthodox Protestant theology.
B) to repudiate the democratic nature of the religious revivalism of the Second Great Awakening.
C) advance religious pluralism and tolerance of non-Protestant religions in America.
D) for direct and immediate personal experience of the divine.

ANSWER
Answer: D