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====Transcendentalism and Unitarian Universalism==== {{Main|Transcendentalism|Universalism}} [[Transcendentalism]] was an early 19th-century [[Liberal Christianity|liberal Protestant]] movement, which was rooted in English and German [[Romanticism]], the [[Biblical criticism]] of [[Johann Gottfried Herder|Herder]] and [[Schleiermacher]], and the [[skepticism]] of [[David Hume|Hume]].{{sfn|Goodman|2003}} The Transcendentalists emphasised an intuitive, experiential approach of religion.{{sfn|Lewis|n.d.}} Following Schleiermacher,{{sfn|Sharf|1995a}} an individual's intuition of truth was taken as the criterion for truth.{{sfn|Lewis|n.d.}} In the late 18th and early 19th century, the first translations of Hindu texts appeared, which were also read by the Transcendentalists, and influenced their thinking.{{sfn|Lewis|n.d.}} They also endorsed [[Universalism|universalist]] and [[Unitarianism|Unitarianist]] ideas, leading to [[Unitarian Universalism]], the idea that there must be truth in other religions as well, since a loving God would redeem all living beings, not just Christians.{{sfn|Lewis|n.d.}}{{sfn|Andrews|1999}}
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