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Infinity, faith and time : Christian humanism and Renaissance literature

"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
eBook, English, ©1997
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal [Que.], ©1997
Electronic books
1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages).
9780773566811, 9781282854710, 9786612854712, 0773566813, 1282854712, 6612854715
181843438
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
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