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 Renaissance writers by enabling them to assimilate into their world view two central discoveries of the Renaissance - that the universe is infinite and that human existence is bound and regulated by the passage of time.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [185]-193
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- 809/.93384
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- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0773516611 9780773566811
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- PN721
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- H54 1997eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 200 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200441 (OCoLC)181843438 (CaOOCEL)400628
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Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- Preface 12
- PART ONE: THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE 16
- 1 Fides Quærens Intellectum 18
- 2 The Aristotelian Cosmos 28
- 3 Nicholas of Cusa and the New Astronomy 32
- 4 Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism 43
- 5 Chorismos and Methexis: Pascal, Traherne, Milton 55
- PART TWO: TIME 82
- 6 Chronos and Kairos 84
- 7 Inner Time: Augustine and Bergson 93
- 8 Time, Literature, and Literary Criticism 103
- 9 Time in Shakespeare 119
- 10 Heilsgeschischte: Typology and the Helix of History 142
- Appendix One: Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic 152
- Appendix Two: Translations from Pascal's Pensées 169
- Notes 172
- Bibliography 200
- Index 210
- A 210
- B 210
- C 211
- D 211
- E 212
- F 212
- G 212
- H 212
- I 212
- J 212
- K 212
- L 213
- M 213
- N 213
- O 213
- P 213
- Q 214
- R 214
- S 214
- T 214
- U 215
- V 215
- W 215
- Y 215
- Z 215
