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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... knowledge about God when the end of that knowledge is , through grace , already its own datum and when the search for truth commences from the possession of it ? In the context of revealed faith , the discursive power of reason might ...
... knowledge about God when the end of that knowledge is , through grace , already its own datum and when the search for truth commences from the possession of it ? In the context of revealed faith , the discursive power of reason might ...
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... Knowledge , accordingly , is characterized by faith ; and faith , by a kind of divine mutual and reciprocal correspondence , becomes char- acterized by knowledge " ( Stromateis 2.4 ; see ANF 2 : 350 ) .4 What , then , does such a ...
... Knowledge , accordingly , is characterized by faith ; and faith , by a kind of divine mutual and reciprocal correspondence , becomes char- acterized by knowledge " ( Stromateis 2.4 ; see ANF 2 : 350 ) .4 What , then , does such a ...
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... knowledge about Him is possible ? The answer , for Clement , is found in Christ - the divine Logos , the Word of God : " God , then , being not a subject for demon- stration , cannot be the object of science . But the Son is wisdom ...
... knowledge about Him is possible ? The answer , for Clement , is found in Christ - the divine Logos , the Word of God : " God , then , being not a subject for demon- stration , cannot be the object of science . But the Son is wisdom ...
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... knowledge , no assimilation to the divine , however , without faith . Scripture itself declares that faith is the precondition of knowledge : " unless ye believe , neither will ye understand ” ( Isa . 7 : 9 LXX ) .9 Faith is not earned ...
... knowledge , no assimilation to the divine , however , without faith . Scripture itself declares that faith is the precondition of knowledge : " unless ye believe , neither will ye understand ” ( Isa . 7 : 9 LXX ) .9 Faith is not earned ...
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... knowledge of the one Saviour revealed individually to each and held in common by all : " He is the true Only - begotten , the express image of the glory of the universal King and Almighty Father , who impresses on the [ true ] Gnostic ...
... knowledge of the one Saviour revealed individually to each and held in common by all : " He is the true Only - begotten , the express image of the glory of the universal King and Almighty Father , who impresses on the [ true ] Gnostic ...
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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