Infinity, Faith, and Time : Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature.
Title:
Infinity, Faith, and Time : Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature.
Author:
Hill, John Spencer.
ISBN:
9780773566811
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Series:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion ; v.29
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE: THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE -- 1 Fides Quærens Intellectum -- 2 The Aristotelian Cosmos -- 3 Nicholas of Cusa and the New Astronomy -- 4 Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism -- 5 Chorismos and Methexis: Pascal, Traherne, Milton -- PART TWO: TIME -- 6 Chronos and Kairos -- 7 Inner Time: Augustine and Bergson -- 8 Time, Literature, and Literary Criticism -- 9 Time in Shakespeare -- 10 Heilsgeschischte: Typology and the Helix of History -- Appendix One: Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic -- Appendix Two: Translations from Pascal's Pensées -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Infinity, Faith, and Time is an exploration of Renaissance literature and the importance of a powerful tradition of Christian-Platonist 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 world view two central discoveries of the Renaissance - that the universe is infinite and that human existence is bound and regulated by the passage of time.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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