Title Infinity, faith and time : Christian humanism and Renaissance literature / John Spencer Hill

Published Montreal [Que.] ; Buffalo, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages) Series McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Contents Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE: THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE -- 1 Fides Qu�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 -- V -- W -- Y -- Z Summary "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 worldview two central discoveries of the Renaissance - that the universe is possibly infinite and that human existence is bound and regulated by the passage of time."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index Notes English Print version record Subject European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism Infinite in literature. Time in literature. Christianity and literature. Humanism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General. Christianity and literature European literature -- Renaissance Humanism in literature Infinite in literature Time in literature Religiao. Filosofia do renascimento. Literatura. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 97900674 ISBN 9780773566811 0773566813 1282854712 9781282854710 9786612854712 6612854715

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