Playlist: Emerson, Ralph Waldo (topic)
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Fourteen)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Ralph Waldo Emerson wielded a profound intellectual influence on life in these United States, particularly through his role in Transcendentalism. Though not a dynamic personality, his ideas resonated deeply with other intellectuals, especially within university teaching staffs and administrations, where his beliefs were imparted …
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Twelve)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Transcendentalism, a religion that surged in popularity before the mid-19th century and waned in the latter half, found its strongest foothold in Boston, Massachusetts, largely due to the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family. Emerson, even as a teenager, possibly during his time at Harvard, expressed a fierce desire …
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Eleven)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in 1803, emerged as a pivotal figure in shaping a distinctive American religious perspective. Hailing from a family deeply entrenched in Unitarianism in the Boston area, the hotbed of such progressive thought, Emerson matriculated at Harvard at the age of 14. By 1817, Harvard had severed ties with major …
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Thirteen)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Although Transcendentalism as a movement never had an abundance of adherents, Emerson's teachings did permeate the schools of philosophy of the Ivy League.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Eighteen)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)In Darwin's teenage years, his mind became twisted, leading him to commit sadistic acts of cruelty against animals and killing them for pleasure.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Fifteen)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Karl Marx was an angry, rage-filled, madman from Trier, whose philosophy is responsible for the mass murder of upwards to 200 million people.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Twenty-Two)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Every one of the philosophers who have wreaked havoc upon greater Israel were themselves Israelite and Semitic, bringing curses on their fellow Semites.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Twenty-One)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)In 1888, Nietzsche identified himself as the anti-Christ, about a month before he became clinically insane, never to recover his lucidity.
The Importance of God's Word
Commentary by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)II Thessalonians 2:6-7 speaks of a force capable of restraining the emergence of the man of lawlessness. God's word and revelation is what restrains iniquity.
Corporate Faith
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughCorporate faith requires that we lay aside our individualism and join our brethren doing God's work.
Is God's Way Simple?
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughJust because something is simple does not make it true and just because something is complex does not make it false. Deeper knowledge often comes with complexity.