Coleridge's progress to Christianity
Subtitle: experience and authority in religious faith
By: Ronald C. Wendling.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Religion.; Christian poetry, English -- History and criticism.; Authority -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Dogma -- History -- 19th century.; Christianity and literature.; Religion in literature.; Experience (Religion)
Description: Best known as a romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge also mounted a strong challenge to the skepticism and relativism we inherit from the Enlightenment. Ronald C. Wendling shows Coleridge, modern in his critical spirit and chronic anxiety, nevertheless progressing toward a total head-and-heart acceptance of Church of England orthodoxy.

The tension between Coleridge's poetic feeling for the divinity of the sensible world and his reverential sense of God's personality and transcendence stimulated this development. Adopting a personalist approach to the study of Coleridge's thought, Wendling explains how the circumstances contributing to his addictive personality helped shape his spiritual and intellectual life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-249) and index.