Aether and The Field: The Great Awakening (Episode 2)
The rise of expectations and challenges to religious belief.
3 min readNov 30, 2020
What Emerson was probably sensitive to but is little known today, was that in the late 18th and early 19th century, this expectation grew very acute when a renaissance of messianic expectations erupted all over the Christian and Islamic world. In the Christian world these…
