Are transcendentalists considered Christians

Answer 1

A Transcendentalist may consider himself to be a Christian. But a true Christian is marked by a belief that Jesus is the only way to eternal salvation, and lives a life that is committed to obedience in the teachings of Jesus.

Answer 2

Transcendentalism is not considered to be a religion or even a philosophy in and of itself. Its ideas have been incorporated into some aspects of religion (particularly Unitarianism in the United States) and have had some influence on philosophical thought and teaching.

SEE BELOW for a better explanation which comes from the encyclopedia. It is a philosophy and some religious groups like New Thought, New Age, and Course of Miracles do incorporate this philosophy into their ideas. Pegalita, Master of Divinity

Transcendentalism - in philosophy, term descriptive of systems that hold that there are modes of being and principles of existence beyond the reach of mundane experience and manipulation. The term is now closely associated with Kantian theory, although some conception of transcendent being has been common to most forms of philosophical idealism. Kant argues that perception of sense data depends on a priori intuitions, which include conception of space and time and categories of judgment. For Kant, "transcendental" refers to conditions necessary for the possibility of experience, while "transcendent" refers to a noumenon, something unknowable and beyond the realm of possible experience.

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