Author : Alexander J. B. Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108429440
"The fundamental concern of Romanticism, which brought about its inception, determined its development, and set its end, was the need to create a new language for religion"--
Author : Bernard M. G. Reardon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 1985-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521317450
The conflict between Romantic thought of the early 1800s in Europe and traditional Christian beliefs resulted in liberalism competing against conservatism. This text attempts to show how writers such as Schleiermacher, Hegel, Schelling and Auguste Compte did not reject religion, despite the influence of the increasingly science oriented culture of their time.
Author : Nicholas Saul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521848911
Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.
Author : Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674019806
This study restores and enhances the philosophical aspect of early German Romanticism, offering an understanding of the movement's origins, development, aims and accomplishments.
Author : Dwight Longenecker
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0849922941
C. S. Lewis said that Christianity works on us like every other myth, except it is a myth that really happened. Dwight Longenecker grabs this idea and runs with it, showing that the Christian story is the greatest story ever told because it gathers up what is true in all the fantasy stories of the world and makes them as solid, true, and real as a tribe of dusty nomads in the desert or the death of a carpenter-king. In The Romance of Religion Longenecker calls for the return of the romantic hero—the hero who knows his frailty and can fight the good fight with panache, humor, and courage. Conflict and romance are everywhere in the story of Christ, and our response is to dust off our armor, don our broad-brimmed hats, pick up our swords, and do battle for Christ with confidence, wonder, and joy. Is religion no more than a fairy tale? No, it is more than a fairy tale—much more: it is all the fairy tales and fantastic stories come true here and now. “This book is witty, whimsical, and deadly serious. With panache and aplomb, Dwight Longenecker sets out to prove that Christianity is, in every sense of the word, fabulous. And does he succeed in his quest? I encourage you to read it to find out.” —Michael Ward, senior research fellow, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and professor of apologetics, Houston Baptist University “If you've never thought about the Christian faith as romance and story, then this book will introduce you to a whole new way of thinking.”—Frank Viola, author of God's Favorite Place on Earth
Author : Alexander J. B. Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108676472
Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with an intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternatively, it has been considered a compromising influence, conflicting with the faith's revelatory foundations and distorting its inherent message. In both cases the fundamental importance of Platonism, as a force which Christianity defined itself by and against, is clear. Written by an international team of scholars, this landmark volume examines the history of Christian Platonism from antiquity to the present day, covers key concepts, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.
Author : Brent Nongbri
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0300154178
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.
Author : Zachary Sng
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0823288439
Romanticism is often understood as an age of extremes, yet it also marks the birth of the modern medium in all senses of the word. Engaging with key texts of the romantic period, the book outlines a wide-reaching project to re-imagine the middle as a constitutive principle. Sng argues that Romanticism dislodges such terms as medium, moderation, and mediation from serving as mere self-evident tools that conduct from one pole to another. Instead, they offer a dwelling in and with the middle: an attention to intervals, interstices, and gaps that make these terms central to modern understandings of relation.
Author : Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108482848
The first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life in the British Romantic period.
Author : Fred Rush
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191512516
Irony and Idealism investigates the historical and conceptual structure of the development of a philosophically distinctive conception of irony in early- to mid-nineteenth century European philosophy. The principal figures treated are the romantic thinkers Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis, Hegel, and Kierkegaard. Fred Rush argues that the development of philosophical irony in this historical period is best understood as providing a way forward in philosophy in the wake of Kant and Jacobi that is discrete from, and many times opposed to, German idealism. Irony and Idealism argues, against the grain of received opinion, that among the German romantics Schlegel's conception of irony is superior to similar ideas found in Novalis. It also presents a sustained argument showing that historical reconsideration of Schlegel has been hampered by contestable Hegelian assumptions concerning the conceptual viability of romantic irony and by the misinterpretation of what the romantics mean by 'the absolute.' Rush argues that this is primarily a social-ontological term and not, as is often supposed, a metaphysical concept. Kierkegaard, although critical of the romantic conception, deploys his own adaptation of it in his criticism of Hegel, continuing, and in a way completing, the arc of irony through nineteenth-century philosophy. The book concludes by offering suggestions meant to guide contemporary reconsideration of Schlegel's and Kierkegaard's views on the philosophical significance of irony.
