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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... become acquainted with that human wisdom which pretends to know the truth , whilst it only corrupts it , " Tertullian banished all pagan thought and any prospect of cooperation between Christians and the old philosophers : What indeed ...
... become acquainted with that human wisdom which pretends to know the truth , whilst it only corrupts it , " Tertullian banished all pagan thought and any prospect of cooperation between Christians and the old philosophers : What indeed ...
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... becomes char- acterized by knowledge " ( Stromateis 2.4 ; see ANF 2 : 350 ) .4 What , then , does such a rational faith ( or fideist reason ) in fact know ? This is a complex question that we may begin to answer by specifying what it ...
... becomes char- acterized by knowledge " ( Stromateis 2.4 ; see ANF 2 : 350 ) .4 What , then , does such a rational faith ( or fideist reason ) in fact know ? This is a complex question that we may begin to answer by specifying what it ...
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... becoming collectively one thing , terminate in the same point - that is , in the Son " ( Stromateis 4.25 ; see ANF 2 : 438 ) .5 Clement's Christology , which antedates the homoousion formula of Nicaea by more than a century , has ...
... becoming collectively one thing , terminate in the same point - that is , in the Son " ( Stromateis 4.25 ; see ANF 2 : 438 ) .5 Clement's Christology , which antedates the homoousion formula of Nicaea by more than a century , has ...
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... becomes an influence that draws the true Gnostic away from objects of sense and the mate- rial world , so that " as those , who are at sea held by an anchor , pull at the anchor , but do not drag it to them , but drag themselves to the ...
... becomes an influence that draws the true Gnostic away from objects of sense and the mate- rial world , so that " as those , who are at sea held by an anchor , pull at the anchor , but do not drag it to them , but drag themselves to the ...
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... become its own sun : the light comes from above . And what does this divine light reveal ? Primarily this : that the self - reflexive human mind , God's image , is a seeking thing that does not know itself except to know that it must ...
... become its own sun : the light comes from above . And what does this divine light reveal ? Primarily this : that the self - reflexive human mind , God's image , is a seeking thing that does not know itself except to know that it must ...
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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