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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b10441993.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-193) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The expanding universe. 1. Fides Quaerens 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 -- pt. 2. Time. 6. Chronos and Kairos. 7. Inner time: Augustine and Bergson. 8. Time, literature, and literary criticism. 9. Time in Shakespeare. 10. Heilsgeschichte: typology and the helix of history. Appendix 1. Notes toward a Protestant poetic -- Appendix 2. Translations from Pascal's Pensees.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 200 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0773516611".
- catalog isPartOf "McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 3.".
- catalog isPartOf "McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press,".
- catalog subject "809/.93384 21".
- catalog subject "Christianity and literature.".
- catalog subject "Christianity in literature.".
- catalog subject "European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Infinite in literature.".
- catalog subject "PN721 .H48 1997".
- catalog subject "Time in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The expanding universe. 1. Fides Quaerens 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 -- pt. 2. Time. 6. Chronos and Kairos. 7. Inner time: Augustine and Bergson. 8. Time, literature, and literary criticism. 9. Time in Shakespeare. 10. Heilsgeschichte: typology and the helix of history. Appendix 1. Notes toward a Protestant poetic -- Appendix 2. Translations from Pascal's Pensees.".
- catalog title "Infinity, faith, and time : Christian humanism and Renaissance literature / John Spencer Hill.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".