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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... human existence is bound and regulated by the passage of time . 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 ...
... human existence is bound and regulated by the passage of time . 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 ...
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... human spiritual potential . Far from being " the last great philosopher of the dying middle ages " ( Koyré ) , Nicholas of Cusa was the fountainhead of a vital ( and orthodox ) religious humanism that deeply influenced Christian ...
... human spiritual potential . Far from being " the last great philosopher of the dying middle ages " ( Koyré ) , Nicholas of Cusa was the fountainhead of a vital ( and orthodox ) religious humanism that deeply influenced Christian ...
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... human existence in time . The last chapter deals with the question of typology and postfiguration in Renaissance literature an idea rooted in Pauline typology and Irenaeus ' doctrine of " recapitulation " - and explores ways in which ...
... human existence in time . The last chapter deals with the question of typology and postfiguration in Renaissance literature an idea rooted in Pauline typology and Irenaeus ' doctrine of " recapitulation " - and explores ways in which ...
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... human " : " This wisdom - rectitude of soul and of reason , and purity of life - is the object of the desire of philosophy , which is kindly and lovingly disposed towards wisdom , and does everything to attain it . " In sum , then ...
... human " : " This wisdom - rectitude of soul and of reason , and purity of life - is the object of the desire of philosophy , which is kindly and lovingly disposed towards wisdom , and does everything to attain it . " In sum , then ...
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... human mind . " True Gnostics are oí þɩhóσopoi toû eɛoû , the philosophers of God . And for Clement , “ he who is in [ such ] a state of knowledge , being assimilated as far as possible to God ( εξομοιούμενος θεῷ εἰς ὅσον δύναται ) , is ...
... human mind . " True Gnostics are oí þɩhóσopoi toû eɛoû , the philosophers of God . And for Clement , “ he who is in [ such ] a state of knowledge , being assimilated as far as possible to God ( εξομοιούμενος θεῷ εἰς ὅσον δύναται ) , is ...
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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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