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In this important volume, French philosopher and poet J.L. Chretien
boldly and subtly applies his vast experience in phenomenology to
poetry and literature - showing indeed how to bridge the boundary
with philosophy. His real aim is implicit and brave: to show that
spiritual authors from Augustine to Claudel surpass Bergson in
their philosophical grasp of intuition and joy. He thus claims new
turf for spiritual authors in the context of examining an important
human constellation of emotions. The approach is exquisitely
multi-disciplinary and makes a vital contribution to our
understanding of the phenomenology of religious experience.
Available in English for the first time, his work will be of
immediate interest to philosophers, theologians, literary critics,
psychologists, art historians and sociologists.
In this important volume, French philosopher and poet J.L. Chretien
boldly and subtly applies his vast experience in phenomenology to
poetry and literature - showing indeed how to bridge the boundary
with philosophy. His real aim is implicit and brave: to show that
spiritual authors from Augustine to Claudel surpass Bergson in
their philosophical grasp of intuition and joy. He thus claims new
turf for spiritual authors in the context of examining an important
human constellation of emotions. The approach is exquisitely
multi-disciplinary and makes a vital contribution to our
understanding of the phenomenology of religious experience.
Available in English for the first time, his work will be of
immediate interest to philosophers, theologians, literary critics,
psychologists, art historians and sociologists.
The historiography of English Catholicism has grown enormously in
the last generation, led by scholars such as Peter Lake, Michael
Questier, Stefania Tutino, and others. In Suspicious Moderate, Anne
Ashley Davenport makes a significant contribution to that
literature by presenting a long overdue intellectual biography of
the influential English Catholic theologian Francis a Sancta Clara
(1598-1680). Born into a Protestant family in Coventry at the end
of the sixteenth century, Sancta Clara joined the Franciscan order
in 1617. He played key roles in reviving the English Franciscan
province and in the efforts that were sponsored by Charles I to
reunite the Church of England with Rome. In his voluminous Latin
writings, he defended moderate Anglican doctrines, championed the
separation of church and state, and called for state protection of
freedom of conscience. Suspicious Moderate offers the first
detailed analysis of Sancta Clara's works. In addition to his
notorious Deus, natura, gratia (1634), Sancta Clara wrote a
comprehensive defense of episcopacy (1640), a monumental treatise
on ecumenical councils (1649), and a treatise on natural philosophy
and miracles (1662). By carefully examining the context of Sancta
Clara's ideas, Davenport argues that he aimed at educating English
Roman Catholics into a depoliticized and capacious Catholicism
suited to personal moral reasoning in a pluralistic world. In the
course of her research, Davenport also discovered that "Philip
Scot," the author of the earliest English discussions of Hobbes (a
treatise published in 1650), was none other than Sancta Clara.
Davenport demonstrates how Sancta Clara joined the effort to fight
Hobbes's Erastianism by carefully reflecting on Hobbes's pioneering
ideas and by attempting to find common ground with him, no matter
how slight.
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