Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance LiteratureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1997 M11 26 - 216 pages 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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... existence is bound and regulated by the passage of time . 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 ...
... existence is bound and regulated by the passage of time . 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 ...
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... existence and composes a simultaneous order . T.S. Eliot This book explores two topics - space and time – that illustrate , in distinct but related ways , the importance for Renaissance literature of a powerful and pervasive tradition ...
... existence and composes a simultaneous order . T.S. Eliot This book explores two topics - space and time – that illustrate , in distinct but related ways , the importance for Renaissance literature of a powerful and pervasive tradition ...
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... existence in time . The last chapter deals with the question of typology and postfiguration in Renaissance literature an idea rooted in Pauline typology and Irenaeus ' doctrine of " recapitulation " - and explores ways in which some of ...
... existence in time . The last chapter deals with the question of typology and postfiguration in Renaissance literature an idea rooted in Pauline typology and Irenaeus ' doctrine of " recapitulation " - and explores ways in which some of ...
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... existence , and glorifies Him as existent , " " a comprehensive knowledge of the essentials ” ( τῶν κατεπειγόντων yvôσ15 ) ( Stromateis 5.1 , 2.4 , 7.10 ; see ANF 2 : 446–7 , 350 , 538–9 ) . At the same time , however , faith " must not ...
... existence , and glorifies Him as existent , " " a comprehensive knowledge of the essentials ” ( τῶν κατεπειγόντων yvôσ15 ) ( Stromateis 5.1 , 2.4 , 7.10 ; see ANF 2 : 446–7 , 350 , 538–9 ) . At the same time , however , faith " must not ...
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Contents
1 | |
TIME | 67 |
Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic | 137 |
Translations from Pascals Pensées | 154 |
Notes | 157 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 195 |
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