Home›Works›An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, CambridgeWorksAn Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, CambridgeAlso Known As The Divinity School AddressCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextLiterature Atlas. "An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-divinity-school-address.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextLiterature Atlas. (n.d.). An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-divinity-school-addressCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{literatureatlas-an-address-delivered-before-the-senior-c, author = {Literature Atlas}, title = {An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-divinity-school-address}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationVerifiedKnown since as the Divinity School Address, delivered to Harvard's graduating divinity class on 15 July 1838. Its rejection of historical miracle as the ground of religious truth provoked Andrews Norton's public reply the following year and kept Emerson off the Harvard platform for nearly thirty years.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsComposed, From (Year)Well-attestedSourced to the subject's own account1838 1Cross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithThe Essay, Forms Well-attested Source Encyclopaedia Britannicatier 1Transcendentalism, Movements Well-attested Source Encyclopaedia Britannicatier 1Authored ByRalph Waldo Emerson, Authors Well-attested Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge (1838)tier 3In GenreNonfiction Prose, Genres Well-attested Sources1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge (1838)Encyclopaedia Britannicatier 1Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Associated With: The EssayView the SourceEncyclopaedia Britannicatier 1Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Associated With: TranscendentalismView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year