Infinity, faith, and time
Subtitle: Christian humanism and Renaissance literature
By: John Spencer Hill.
Series: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Montreal; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism; Infinite in literature; Time in literature; Christianity in literature; Christianity and literature
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-193) and index.