Virtue of Necessity: Coleridge’s Unitarian Moral Theory

Ulmer argues for the cogency of Coleridge's early moralist viewpoint by reconstructing his Unitarian ideas of Necessity and original sin. Among other things, he emphasizes that Coleridge's Unitarian optimism hardly left him naive about evil and injustice. In a similar way, Coleridge's...

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Published in:Modern philology 2005-02, Vol.102 (3), p.372-404
Main Author: Ulmer, William A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atonement
Christianity
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Ethics
Evil
Guilt
Intellectuals
Morality
Motivation
Original sin
Religious poetry
Theology
Unitarianism
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Summary:Ulmer argues for the cogency of Coleridge's early moralist viewpoint by reconstructing his Unitarian ideas of Necessity and original sin. Among other things, he emphasizes that Coleridge's Unitarian optimism hardly left him naive about evil and injustice. In a similar way, Coleridge's views of original sin and the atonement display an evenhanded revisionism, declining the orthodox defense of vicariousness while preserving the orthodox insistence on corruption.
ISSN:0026-8232
1545-6951
DOI:10.1086/432693