As a Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, secularizing Christ as a type of the poet, assimilated the Christian theology of the Incarnation of the Word into his aesthetics. Trained to become a Unitarian minister, Emerson abandoned his pulpit a few years after he was appointed a minister and turned to philosophy and literature. In so doing, he assimilates the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, developing his trinitarian poetics, poetics of the identity of Nature (the Bible) as the text, Beauty (God) as the author, and the Poet (Christ) as the reader. This poetics of Emerson aims to defamiliarize the reader`s habitualized angle of vision and leads him into a new being who can see through the surface of things the divine glory of the ordinary and the common and to realize the identity of God as author, Nature as the text, and Man as the reader. (Chungnam National University)