Eternity's Ennui

Eternity's Ennui PDF Author: M.B. Pranger
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900418936X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine’s confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time’s focus with eternity’s longueur and the rhetoric of digression?

Eternity's Ennui

Eternity's Ennui PDF Author: M.B. Pranger
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900418936X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Book Description
This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine’s confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time’s focus with eternity’s longueur and the rhetoric of digression?

On Religion and Memory

On Religion and Memory PDF Author: Babette Hellemans
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823251624
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Religion and Pastness examines the implications of the Augustinian concept of time as favoring a-causality over linear continuity. From this viewpoint the various essays address problems of dynamics and stasis in texts, paintings and music ranging from Augustine to Abelard, Eriugena, Thoreau, Calvin, Shakespeare, Rubens, Bach, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Virginia Woolf, Cavell.

Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions

Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions PDF Author: Karmen Mackendrick
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823242897
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Divine Enticement argues for a reconception of theology and it subject matter as modes of seduction, of both body and mind. Theological language as evocation opens onto rereadings of faith, sacrament, ethics, prayer and scripture. The conclusion argues for a sense of theology as calling upon infinite possibility.

Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality

Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality PDF Author: Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449345
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 799

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No one theory of time is pursued in the essays of this volume, but a major theme that threads them together is Wolfson’s signature idea of the timeswerve as a linear circularity or a circular linearity, expressions that are meant to avoid the conventional split between the two temporal modalities of the line and the circle.

A Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux

A Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux PDF Author: Brian Patrick McGuire
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004201394
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Bernard of Clairvaux emerges from these studies as a vibrant, challenging and illuminating representative of the monastic culture of the twelfth century. In taking on Peter Abelard and the new scholasticism he helped define the very world he opposed and thus contributed to the renaissance of the twelfth century.

Words

Words PDF Author: Ernst van den Hemel
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823255581
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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It is said that words are like people: One can encounter them daily yet never come to know their true selves. This volume examines what words are—how they exist—in religious phenomena. Going beyond the common idea that language merely describes states of mind, beliefs, and intentions, the book looks at words in their performative and material specificity. The contributions in the volume develop the insight that our implicit assumptions about what language does guide the way we understand and experience religious phenomena. They also explore the possibility that insights about the particular status of religious utterances may in turn influence the way we think about words in our language.

Image, Identity, and the Forming of the Augustinian Soul

Image, Identity, and the Forming of the Augustinian Soul PDF Author: Matthew Drever
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199916330
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Book Description
Through examination of Augustine's account of the human relation to God, Matthew Drever finds a crucial resource for a religious reorientation and revaluation of the human person,

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Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643916272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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The Space of Time

The Space of Time PDF Author: David van Dusen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004269312
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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From Robert Grosseteste to Jean-François Lyotard, Augustine’s suggestion that time is a “dilation of the soul” (distentio animi) has been taken up as a seminal and controversial time-concept, yet in The Space of Time, David van Dusen argues that this ‘dilation’ has been fundamentally misinterpreted. Time in Confessions XI is a dilation of the senses—in beasts, as in humans. And Augustine’s time-concept in Confessions XI is not Platonic—but in schematic terms, Epicurean. Identifying new influences on the Confessions—from Aristoxenus to Lucretius—while keeping Augustine’s phenomenological interpreters in view, The Space of Time is a path-breaking work on Confessions X to XII and a ranging contribution to the history of the concept of time.

New Readings of Anselm of Canterbury's Intellectual Methods

New Readings of Anselm of Canterbury's Intellectual Methods PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004506489
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Book Description
New readings of Anselm’s speculative and spiritual writings brought in light of questions and thinkers from Augustine to today.