An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge

An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1838 address, usually known as the Divinity School Address, is Emerson's own primary statement of his religious views, which broke sharply enough with orthodox Unitarian Christianity that Harvard did not invite him back to speak for nearly thirty years. Its strength is that it is the primary text itself, in Emerson's own words, at the moment of its original controversy. Its limit is that it is a single address rather than a systematic theological treatise; readers wanting Emerson's fuller religious thought should read his other essays alongside it, and no publisher or url is given here because the address is properly cited as a text in its own right rather than through any one edition.