Philosophia perennis : historical outlines of western spirituality in ancient, medieval and early modern thuoght

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Philosophia perennis : historical outlines of western spirituality in ancient, medieval and early modern thuoght

by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann

(Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas, 189)

Springer, c2004

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-492) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

Table of Contents

Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination.- Outlines of Perennial Philosophy.- Glory.- Divine Names.- Kosmos Anthropos.- Archetypes.- Spiritual Spaces.- Theology of Time.- The Return of Time.- Epochs and Eras.- Translatio Sapientiae.- The Echo of Perennial Philosophy.- Schelling's "World-Ages".

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Details

  • NCID
    BA7187454X
  • ISBN
    • 1402030665
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Dordrecht
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 496 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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