Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism
of which humanflourishing is an axiom. In hisDe reductione artium ad theologiamBonaventure accordingly derives all of the arts, ...
bibliocentrism. It is evidence rather of renewed primary engagement with the actual foundation of Western intellectual culture, ...
reading of Augustine’sConfessions, even (and perhaps especially) an infernal reading of the Bible.^22 Recently our perspective i ...
9 Fiery Tongues and Minds Afire Christian Humanism’s Legacy in Renaissance Poetry Brett Foster This volume is dedicated to the a ...
these characteristic features, I will brieflyreflect on what Christian humanism might mean for us today, given our earlier sketc ...
slogging through a long Latin or Greek text, it is bracing, it is thrilling to come across a poem like the one I am just about t ...
Promethean, when Pico has God say to Adam that his free will enables him to be the free and proud shaper of his own being and na ...
feeling. So that he who reads may not recognize fragments from Cicero but the reflection of a well stored mind.^9 Imitation, the ...
may be tuned to the‘highest key of passion’.^14 Likewise, on account of providing vivid imagery, poetry has a greater impact on ...
to oneself some hero, not to imitate but to be surpassed’, he writes. Gracián points the reader to ancient examples of greatness ...
address. In these cases, poems can become a gifting, a giving counsel, a gratuity we might say, but never gratuitous; in other w ...
be strained and pushed around from connotation to connotation to help us see that collaboration indicates the fundamentally soci ...
take their chances in these various social settings, because the alternative was untenable for them. Steven Greenblatt in his re ...
1 When the fyftith daye was come they were all with one accorde togeder in one place. 2 And sodenly ther cam a sounde from heave ...
And then here is my favourite by Robert Hanks. I’ll let you judge this metaphor as you will:‘Poetry is the microwave oven of the ...
doppelgänger, Franciscus, and his Christian intellectual predecessor Augustine, who in the dialogue was both inspirer and someti ...
that haunts all artists, even friendly ones—and I don’t think that Joyce was always so friendly. So even if comically, Eugenides ...
apostle Paul identifies us in Ephesians 2:10, and, from the Tyndale version again,‘created in Christ Jesu vnto good works’.^45 T ...
authors remain vital, valuable resources for those still attempting to define better what Richard Sennett calls‘the cultural ide ...
kind of entertainment industry MacFarlane represents is a far cry from the commentaries and prayers of Erasmus and Thomas More. ...
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