Modernity and the reinvention of tradition
Subtitle: backing into the future
By: Stephen Prickett.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521517461
Subjects: Tradition (Philosophy) -- History; Tradition (Theology) -- History of doctrines; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Description: viii, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ancient & modern: the braid of Cassiodorus; title: Tradition, literacy and change; title: Church versus scripture: the idea of biblical tradition; title: Revolution and tradition; title: Re-envisioning the past: metaphors and symbols of tradition; title: Inventing Christian culture: Volney, Chateaubriand and the French Revolution; title: Herder, Schleiermacher, Novalis and Schlegel: the idea of a Christian Europe; title: Translating Herder: the idea of protestant romanticism; title: Keble and the Anglican tradition; title: Newman and the development of tradition; title: Arnold: taking religion out of religion; title: Radical tradition: theologizing Eliot.