Essayes in Divinity: Being Several Disquisitions Interwoven with Meditations and Prayers - Hardcover

Raspa, Anthony; Donne, John

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ISBN 10: 0773523006 ISBN 13: 9780773523005

Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001

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Book by Donne John

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"Raspa establishes the text definitively. He provides richly detailed and illuminating notes, and his introduction is erudite and authoritative." Hugh MacCallum, professor emeritus, Department of English, University of Toronto

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Completed late in 1614, Essayes, Donne's only theological and philosophical treatise, casts considerable light on his ideas about his own future. Donne entered the Anglican priesthood soon after completing it and Raspa reveals that, particularly because of its treatment of time and destiny, Essayes is crucial to our understanding of the development of Donne's ideas about the turbulent religio-political state of the Renaissance world and how he came to see his own life within it. Raspa contends that Essayes is a peculiarly modern work and that Donne, as a Renaissance humanist, was profoundly shaken by the development of empirical thinking and the seemingly endless political conflicts among Christian denominations. He shows that Donne drew on the entirety of Renaissance humanist learning in an attempt to reconcile the state of contemporary knowledge with the destiny of humanity prophesied in the Bible.

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• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0773523006
• ISBN 13: 9780773523005
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304