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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index.

"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

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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 -- 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

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