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 Rena...

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1. Verfasser: Hill, John Spencer, 1943-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal [Que.] ; Buffalo, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997.
Schriftenreihe:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages.)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index.
ISBN:9780773566811
0773566813
1282854712
9781282854710
9786612854712
6612854715

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