Download or read book New World Metaphysics written by Giles Gunn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981-06-04 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the days of discovery, when America was for Europeans more dream than reality, to our own days of disillusionment and faltering hope, poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, and theologians have drawn on religious themes and images to express the meaning of their encounter with America. Here, in more than one hundred selections, is the record of their quest for a New World metaphysics -- a spiritual vision or ultimate idea of order expressive of the American experience.