Infinity, faith and time : Christian humanism and Renaissance literature / John Spencer Hill.
"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 a formative role in the thought of Rena...
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Montreal [Que.] ; Buffalo, NY :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1997.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE: THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE
- 1 Fides QuÃ?rens 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 PenséesNotes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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- W
- Y
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