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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... soul - a private apocalypsis that echoes and confirms the public revelation recorded in Scripture - then what is the function and what are the legitimate aspirations of reason ? In what way , if at all , can the logical and philosophic ...
... soul - a private apocalypsis that echoes and confirms the public revelation recorded in Scripture - then what is the function and what are the legitimate aspirations of reason ? In what way , if at all , can the logical and philosophic ...
الصفحة 7
... soul , and therefore rational . " ( Protrepti- cus 10 ; see ANF 2 : 199 ) .8 There can be no knowledge , no assimilation to the divine , however , without faith . Scripture itself declares that faith is the precondition of knowledge ...
... soul , and therefore rational . " ( Protrepti- cus 10 ; see ANF 2 : 199 ) .8 There can be no knowledge , no assimilation to the divine , however , without faith . Scripture itself declares that faith is the precondition of knowledge ...
الصفحة 8
... soul in accordance with a correct judgment and aspiration after the truth , which attains its destined end through the body , the soul's consort and ally 14 The true Gnostic is one who is [ fashioned ] after the image and likeness of ...
... soul in accordance with a correct judgment and aspiration after the truth , which attains its destined end through the body , the soul's consort and ally 14 The true Gnostic is one who is [ fashioned ] after the image and likeness of ...
الصفحة 9
... soul's ascent through various stages of rational assent to ecstatic participation in the divine darkness . Although actual growth is the work of the Logos , the human soul , a divine εi Kóν ( image , likeness ) implanted at baptism ...
... soul's ascent through various stages of rational assent to ecstatic participation in the divine darkness . Although actual growth is the work of the Logos , the human soul , a divine εi Kóν ( image , likeness ) implanted at baptism ...
الصفحة 10
... soul effected through the instrument of the body.17 ) But , while the contents of human knowledge are derived from sense and the concepts formed by reflection on sensory experience , it is only through direct divine illumination that ...
... soul effected through the instrument of the body.17 ) But , while the contents of human knowledge are derived from sense and the concepts formed by reflection on sensory experience , it is only through direct divine illumination that ...
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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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