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<\/a>Orestes Augustus Brownson<\/a> was born on this day in 1803 in Stockbridge, Vermont.<\/p>\nHe came from an impoverished background and educated himself.<\/p>\n
A restless and questing spirit, Orestes Brownson was a precursor, to my mind, of our contemporary spirituality; kaleidoscopic, experimental, and rarely, if ever, settled.<\/p>\n
He was variously a Presbyterian, a Universalist minister, a Unitarian clergyman, a leader in the Transcendentalist movement, and eventually, a Roman Catholic.<\/p>\n
He was a significant figure first as a Transcendentalist thinker and then as a lay Roman Catholic. It appears his later life was as conservative as his earlier was progressive.<\/p>\n
Although how this should be achieved shifted over the years, a constant thread for him was his devotion to the concerns of the working classes and a relentless call for social justice in our nation.<\/p>\n
While I prefer his earlier incarnations, I think his later concerns with eclecticism and relativism are worthy questions. Not his answers, mind you, but his questions\u2026<\/p>\n
A worthy figure to remember\u2026<\/p>\n
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