Thursday, January 30, 2025
Henry David Thoreau was a harsh critic of the "respectable" Christianity of his day, but he was also a mystic with a deep reverence for the sacredness of life. Richard Higgins '74, the author of Thoreau's God, explores Thoreau's innate religiosity and his search for communion with a divine mystery that was at once immanent in the natural world and yet transcendent.