Join us at The Walden Woods Project, as part of The Concord Festival of Authors, for a presentation from Richard Higgins!
About Richard Higgins:
Richard Higgins is a writer, book coach and the author or editor of five books, including, most recently, Thoreau’s God, from the University of Chicago Press, which explores Thoreau’s iconoclastic religious vision, and Thoreau and the Language of Trees, about Thoreau’s multifaceted love of trees. A Boston Globe staff writer for 20 years, Richard lives in Concord and is a member of the Thoreau Society board. A graduate of Holy Cross College, Columbia Journalism School, and Harvard Divinity School, Richard has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Century, American Scholar and other publications.
About the presentation:
Richard Higgins will discuss his new book, Thoreau’s God, which recovers a central thread in Thoreau’s life and work that has been ignored or dismissed—his personal religiosity and iconoclastic theological vision. Both are woven through Thoreau’s work as a naturalist and his philosophical thought and ethical commitments. Although a harsh critic of historical Christianity, Thoreau was religious to the bone and had a profound sense of the holy. In a time of religious upheaval, he was a pioneer who sought to divorce the religious sentiment from its institutional context. In essence, he 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. He called this illimitable presence many names, but he often called it God. Thoreau’s eclectic, experiential spirituality is resonating with spiritual seekers in America today.
When: Wednesday, October 22, 6:15-8:00 pm EST.
Where: The Walden Woods Project (address provided upon registration)
Doors will open at 6:15 pm for a wine and cheese reception. The presentation will begin at 7:00 pm.
