Literature, Belief and Knowledge in Early Modern England Knowing Faith /

The primary aim of Knowing Faith is to uncover the intervention of literary texts and approaches in a wider conversation about religious knowledge: why we need it, how to get there, where to stop, and how to recognise it once it has been attained. Its relative freedom from specialised disciplinary i...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature ; 1
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ISBN:9783319713595
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Crossroads of Knowledge: Literature and Theology - Subha Mukherji
  • 2. Erasmus on Literature and Knowledge - Brian Cummings
  • 3. The Hermeneutics of Richard Hooker's Defence of the "Sensible Excellencie" of Public Worship' - W. J. Torrance Kirby
  • 4. Seeing and Believing: Thomas Traherne's Poetic Language and the Reading Eye' - Jane Partner
  • 5. The Absence of Epistemology, or Drama and Divinity before Descartes - Debora Shuger
  • 6. 'Qui enim securus est, minime securus est': The Paradox of Securitas in Luther and Beyond' - Giles Waller
  • 7. Allegory and Religious Fanaticism: Spenser's Organs of Divine Might - Ross Lerner
  • 8. What the Nose Knew: Renaissance Theologies of Smell - Sophie Read
  • 9. Nosce Teipsum: The Senses of Self-knowledge in Early Modern England - Elizabeth L. Swann
  • 10. Knowing and Forgiving - Regina Schwarz
  • 11. How to Do Things with Belief - Ethan Shagan
  • 12. Locke's Cicero: Between Moral Knowledge and Faith - Tim Stuart-Buttle
  • 13. Afterword - Rowan Williams.