Infinity, faith and time Christian humanism and Renaissance literature

Hill, John Spencer 1943- (Author).

Summary: "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."--Jacket.

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ISBN: 9780773566811 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773566813 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773516611
ISBN: 9780773516618
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiv, 200 p.)
Publisher: Montreal [Que.] ; Buffalo, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997.

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General Note:	Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. CatMonthString:august.17 Multi-User. Terms of use - Includes index. CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-user.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-193) and index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.