Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance LiteratureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 26.11.1997 - 216 Seiten In Part 1 Hill examines the effect of the idea of spatial infinity on seventeenth-century literature, arguing that the metaphysical cosmology of Nicholas of Cusa provided Renaissance writers, such as Pascal, Traherne, and Milton, with a way to construe the vastness of space as the symbol of human spiritual potential. Focusing on time in Part 2, Hill reveals that, faced with the inexorability of time, Christian humanists turned to St Augustine to develop a philosophy that interpreted temporal passage as the necessary condition of experience without making it the essence or ultimate measure of human purpose. Hill's analysis centres on Shakespeare, whose experiments with the shapes of time comprise a gallery of heuristic time-centred fictions that attempt to explain the consequences of human existence in time. Infinity, Faith, and Time reveals that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period during which individuals were able, with more success than in later times, to make room for new ideas without rejecting old beliefs. |
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... Greek view of time as quantitative chronos and the Hebrew view of it as qualita- tive kairos ( chap . 6 ) , the argument explores ( chap . 7 ) the implications of the two major Western philosophies that treat time as a psycho- logical ...
... Greek view of time as quantitative chronos and the Hebrew view of it as qualita- tive kairos ( chap . 6 ) , the argument explores ( chap . 7 ) the implications of the two major Western philosophies that treat time as a psycho- logical ...
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... Greek philosophy and the relevance , or lack of it , of Greek wisdom for those baptized into the Christian covenant of 1 Fides Quærens Intellectum.
... Greek philosophy and the relevance , or lack of it , of Greek wisdom for those baptized into the Christian covenant of 1 Fides Quærens Intellectum.
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... Greek philosophy that , like Plato's intuitional metaphysic and the puritan ethics of Sto- icism , could be quarried to bolster the anti - Gnostic ideal of an ascetic life inspired and directed by a truly rational faith . The distance ...
... Greek philosophy that , like Plato's intuitional metaphysic and the puritan ethics of Sto- icism , could be quarried to bolster the anti - Gnostic ideal of an ascetic life inspired and directed by a truly rational faith . The distance ...
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... Greek philosophy - whose principle doctrines were taken , Clement believed , from the Hebrews - was , in its own way , proleptic of Christian truth : " Now the Greek philosophy , as it were , purges the soul , and prepares it beforehand ...
... Greek philosophy - whose principle doctrines were taken , Clement believed , from the Hebrews - was , in its own way , proleptic of Christian truth : " Now the Greek philosophy , as it were , purges the soul , and prepares it beforehand ...
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... , among other things , " gave philosophy to the Greeks by means of the inferior angels " ( Stromateis 7.2 , 5.1 , 7.2 ; see ANF 2 : 525 , 445-7 , 524 ) .7 What then of man ? As Christ is divine Reason 6 The Expanding Universe.
... , among other things , " gave philosophy to the Greeks by means of the inferior angels " ( Stromateis 7.2 , 5.1 , 7.2 ; see ANF 2 : 525 , 445-7 , 524 ) .7 What then of man ? As Christ is divine Reason 6 The Expanding Universe.
Inhalt
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TIME | 67 |
Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic | 137 |
Translations from Pascals Pensées | 154 |
Notes | 157 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 195 |
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