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Infinity, Faith, and Time : Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773566811
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Infinity, Faith, and TimeLOC classification:
  • PN721
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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