On religion and memory

This volume explores the status of temporality in a selection of sources ranging from Augustine to Virginia Woolf. The volume's essays, expressed by a number of Christian religious thinkers, take up Augustine's paradox of time: how to account for the continuity of history and the certitude...

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Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press , 2013
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Augustine > of Hippo, Saint > 354-430
Online Access:Volltext
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: On religion and memory
Author Notes:edited by Babette Hellemans, Willemien Otten, and Burcht Pranger
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Time and Eternity: Between and Betwixt ; The Vision at Ostia: Augustine's Desire to Become a Red Indian
  • Burcht Pranger
  • Memory and the Sublime: Wittgenstein on Augustine's Trouble with Time
  • James Wetzel
  • Part II Moving Progressively Backward ; The Man without Memory: Peter Abelard and Trust in History
  • Babette Hellemans
  • Creation and Epiphanic Incarnation: Reflections on the Future of Natural Theology from an Eriugenian-Emersonian Perspective
  • Willemien Otten
  • The Care of the Past: The Place of Pastness in Transgenerational Projects
  • Charles Hallisey
  • Trembling in Time: Silence and Meaning between Barthes, Chateaubriand, and Rancé
  • Mette Birkedal Bruun
  • Part III Time and the Ordinary ; The Literary Comfort of Eternity: Calvin and Thoreau
  • Ernst van den Hemel
  • The Past and History in Ordinary Language Philosophy
  • Asja Szafraniec
  • Part IV Time and Lateness ; From Past to Present and from Listening to Hearing: Final Indefinable Moments in Bach's and Stravinsky's Music
  • Rokus de Groot
  • Late Style Messiaen
  • Sander van Maas
  • Part V Time and Oblivion ; Of Shakespeare and Pastness
  • Brian Cummings
  • The Anger of Angels: From Rubens to Virginia Woolf
  • Peter Cramer.

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