The American Minervan

Tag: Protestantism

  • Frederick Douglass’s Travels to Italy and Egypt (1886-1887)

    Frederick Douglass’s Travels to Italy and Egypt (1886-1887)

    Reflections tying classical worlds to Black American history and Douglass’s rhetorical strategy in engaging with classical antiquity and critiquing aspects of Catholic ceremonial from a republican, Protestant perspective. In the waning days of September 1886, Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and statesman set sail from New York aboard the steamer City of Rome, beginning an extended…

  • The Collected Works of Adam Weishaupt: On Materialism and Idealism

    The Collected Works of Adam Weishaupt: On Materialism and Idealism

    VARIOUS OPINIONS ABOUT WEISHAUPT’S PHILOSOPHY RANGED FROM anarchist to secular utopian, republican, and philanthropist (see Buzz Feed Unsolved: The Secret Society of the Illuminati). The fact however is — Adam Weishaupt is a Protestant thinker, and his beliefs or system can be studied within the context of Idealism, personally engaged in a blend of rational mysticism and morality…

  • Historical Connection of Born-Again Christianity to 17th century Theosophers, Occultism and Alchemy

    Historical Connection of Born-Again Christianity to 17th century Theosophers, Occultism and Alchemy

    Theosophy and Mike A. Zuber on the Nature and Roots of “Born-Again” Christianity traced to the clandestine network of theosophers, Rosicrucians and alchemical Paracelsianism around 1600 are connected to the later spiritual movements of the American settlers. The beliefs of post-liberal Catholic conservatives that Gnosticism is creeping into church theology are mute, against a long…