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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... universe is possibly infinite and that human 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 ...
... universe is possibly infinite and that human 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 ...
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Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature John Spencer Hill. This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi PART ONE THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE 1 Fides.
Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literature John Spencer Hill. This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi PART ONE THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE 1 Fides.
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... UNIVERSE 1 Fides Quærens Intellectum 3 2 The Aristotelian Cosmos 13 3 Nicholas of Cusa and the New Astronomy 17 4 Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism 28 5 Chorismos and Methexis : Pascal , Traherne , Milton 40 PART TWO TIME ...
... UNIVERSE 1 Fides Quærens Intellectum 3 2 The Aristotelian Cosmos 13 3 Nicholas of Cusa and the New Astronomy 17 4 Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism 28 5 Chorismos and Methexis : Pascal , Traherne , Milton 40 PART TWO TIME ...
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... Universe , " focuses on astronomy and is concerned with the impact of the idea of spatial infinity on seventeenth - century literature . Following an analysis of Clement of Alexandria's rational spirituality - an analysis more lengthy ...
... Universe , " focuses on astronomy and is concerned with the impact of the idea of spatial infinity on seventeenth - century literature . Following an analysis of Clement of Alexandria's rational spirituality - an analysis more lengthy ...
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... universe , the argument considers the metaphysical cosmology of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa , an important fifteenth ... universe are explored in detail in the work of Pascal , Traherne , and Milton , three writers whose differences have ...
... universe , the argument considers the metaphysical cosmology of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa , an important fifteenth ... universe are explored in detail in the work of Pascal , Traherne , and Milton , three writers whose differences have ...
Contents
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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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