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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... rational spirituality derived from St Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa . John Spencer Hill argues that this tradition had a formative role in the thought of Renaissance writers by enabling them to assimilate into their worldview two ...
... rational spirituality derived from St Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa . John Spencer Hill argues that this tradition had a formative role in the thought of Renaissance writers by enabling them to assimilate into their worldview two ...
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... Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism 28 5 Chorismos and Methexis : Pascal , Traherne , Milton 40 PART TWO TIME 6 Chronos and Kairos 69 7 Inner Time : Augustine and Bergson 78 8 Time , Literature , and Literary Criticism 88 9 ...
... Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism 28 5 Chorismos and Methexis : Pascal , Traherne , Milton 40 PART TWO TIME 6 Chronos and Kairos 69 7 Inner Time : Augustine and Bergson 78 8 Time , Literature , and Literary Criticism 88 9 ...
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... rational spirituality . Rejecting the heterodoxy of Hermetic ( and Gnostic ) Neo- platonism and the protopositivism of Baconian and Hobbesian ratio- nalism , major Renaissance writers drew on and adapted to their own needs the solidly ...
... rational spirituality . Rejecting the heterodoxy of Hermetic ( and Gnostic ) Neo- platonism and the protopositivism of Baconian and Hobbesian ratio- nalism , major Renaissance writers drew on and adapted to their own needs the solidly ...
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... rational spirituality ; and various early responses - Donne , Herbert , Burton to the new astronomy are briefly examined . In the final chapter of part 1 ( chap . 5 ) , the impli- cations of an infinite universe are explored in detail ...
... rational spirituality ; and various early responses - Donne , Herbert , Burton to the new astronomy are briefly examined . In the final chapter of part 1 ( chap . 5 ) , the impli- cations of an infinite universe are explored in detail ...
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... rational inquiry serve as instruments of 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 ...
... rational inquiry serve as instruments of 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 ...
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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