John Spencer Hill

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Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literaturevolume 29Hardcover, 26 November 1997

Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance Literaturevolume 29
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Part of Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
Part of Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two
Part of Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Re
Print Length
216 pages
Language
English
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date Published
26 Nov 1997
ISBN-10
0773516611
ISBN-13
9780773516618

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
John Spencer Hill
Book Format:
Hardcover
Date Published:
26 November 1997
Dimensions:
23.88 x 16.13 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
0773516611
ISBN-13:
9780773516618
Language:
English
Pages:
216
Weight:
498.95 gm

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