Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance LiteratureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 26/11/1997 - 216 من الصفحات 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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... living before Sabellius and Noetus were born , he knew no reason to be more precise . But what he does say is clear enough . The Father is known only in and through the Logos operating in us , by the agency of the Holy Spirit , as ...
... living before Sabellius and Noetus were born , he knew no reason to be more precise . But what he does say is clear enough . The Father is known only in and through the Logos operating in us , by the agency of the Holy Spirit , as ...
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... living righteously , reigning over the passions , bestowing of what he has as far as possible , and doing good both by word and deed . " ( Pædagogus 13 ; see ANF 2 : 235 ) Knowledge ( yvôσ15 ) prompts practice , and practice in turn ...
... living righteously , reigning over the passions , bestowing of what he has as far as possible , and doing good both by word and deed . " ( Pædagogus 13 ; see ANF 2 : 235 ) Knowledge ( yvôσ15 ) prompts practice , and practice in turn ...
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... living prayer and , like the divine Pædagogus whose image he bears , his life is devoted to instruction , for " he who is made like the Saviour is also devoted to saving . " In rectitude of life , then , as in depth of knowledge and ...
... living prayer and , like the divine Pædagogus whose image he bears , his life is devoted to instruction , for " he who is made like the Saviour is also devoted to saving . " In rectitude of life , then , as in depth of knowledge and ...
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... living beings . Therefore , we must refuse so to believe as not to receive or seek a reason for our belief , since we could not believe at all if we did not have rational souls . So , then , in some points that bear on the doctrine of ...
... living beings . Therefore , we must refuse so to believe as not to receive or seek a reason for our belief , since we could not believe at all if we did not have rational souls . So , then , in some points that bear on the doctrine of ...
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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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