Author

Johann Adam Möhler(1796–1838)

Johann Adam Möhler is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. One work is named, all in Mostly Extracts, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
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Present in
Manuscripts

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Spener insisted upon a living faith rooted in the regenerate will, and undertook to revivify religion, that had perished in the stiff forms of a mechanical orthodoxy.”
Symbolik [Symbolism, or Exposition of the Doctrinal Differences Between Catholics and Protestants] · Mostly Extracts

When Fuller engaged with Johann Adam Möhler

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Möhler in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Mostly Extracts

pp64–70
excerpted · quoted · readManuscript page
“Spener insisted upon a living faith rooted in the regenerate will, and undertook to revivify religion, that had perished in the stiff forms of a mechanical orthodoxy.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Mostly Extracts." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (89); Box 5 (89).

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1843—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p137
read
“Margaret was reading, in these weeks, the Four Books of Confucius, the Desatir, some of Taylor's translations from the Greek, a work on Scandinavian Mythology, Moehler's Symbolism, Fourier's Noveau Monde Industriel, and Landor's Pentameron”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.