Co-sponsored by First Parish in Lincoln

The Riddle of Thoreau’s Religion
Thursday, February 13 from 7:00-8:00pm
Lincoln Library

Richard Higgins will discuss his new book Thoreau’s God, from the University of Chicago, which explores Thoreau’s spirituality, his perception of God in nature and his sense of the sacred in the ordinary. Thoreau was a harsh critic of Christianity in his day, but he was religious to the bone and had a profound sense of the holy. Richard presents Thoreau as a religious thinker who tried to separate the universal religious impulse from its 19th-century institutional context. In essence, Thoreau was a mystic who, while firmly moored to the earth, was on a quest to commune with a divine mystery that was both immanent in the natural world and transcendent.