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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... : Typology and the Helix of History 127 Appendix One : Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic 137 Appendix Two : Translations from Pascal's Pensées 154 Notes 157 Bibliography 185 Index 195 Preface The historical sense Contents.
... : Typology and the Helix of History 127 Appendix One : Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic 137 Appendix Two : Translations from Pascal's Pensées 154 Notes 157 Bibliography 185 Index 195 Preface The historical sense Contents.
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Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature John Spencer Hill. Notes 157 Bibliography 185 Index 195 Preface The historical sense involves a perception , not only x Contents.
Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature John Spencer Hill. Notes 157 Bibliography 185 Index 195 Preface The historical sense involves a perception , not only x Contents.
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Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature John Spencer Hill. Preface The historical sense involves a perception , not only of the pastness of the past , but of its presence . The historical sense compels a man to write not merely ...
Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature John Spencer Hill. Preface The historical sense involves a perception , not only of the pastness of the past , but of its presence . The historical sense compels a man to write not merely ...
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... sense know God , although , by the grace of faith , it knows of him . In contrast to the pagan deities whose likenesses are figured in stone and paint , the true God cannot be imaged , except negatively , even in the immaterial ...
... sense know God , although , by the grace of faith , it knows of him . In contrast to the pagan deities whose likenesses are figured in stone and paint , the true God cannot be imaged , except negatively , even in the immaterial ...
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... 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 anchor ; so those who , according to the gnostic life , draw God ...
... 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 anchor ; so those who , according to the gnostic life , draw God ...
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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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