ENGL 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antinomianism, Protestantism, Intellectual Freedom
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He wants to shock readers threshold moment where the old truths are being destroyed but no new truths have yet emerged to replace them he likes that transitional moment. He is trying to evoke a moment where a new thought could emerge. He is most properly seen as a rhetorician. He quit the ministry after many generations of ministers in his family and became a lecturer and out of his lectures he built his writings etc. The self hood that emerges is always a tryout of a possible self and that self is reformed through the process of writing. Circles closest to doing what he wants to do in his writing. Nature sounds too much like a sermon. If you had to distill a theme, it would be process. Theme of impermanence of all things eternal law of procession. The world and our thoughts are always in flux and always mobile the world is always becoming.
