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Harding Anthony John |
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Coleridge and the inspired word [[electronic resource] /] / Anthony John Harding |
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Kingston, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1985 |
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1-282-85645-6 |
9786612856457 |
0-7735-6403-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 8 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Inspiration |
Christianity and literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Beyond Mythology: Coleridge and the Legacy of the Enlightenment -- Beyond Nature -- Inspiration and Freedom: The “Letters on the Inspiration of the Scriptures” -- The Broad Church, F. D. Maurice, and Coleridge’s “Letters on the Inspiration of the Scriptures” -- John Sterling and the Universal Sense of the Divine -- The Divinity in Man -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This movement radically revised the interpretation of the Bible as an "inspired" book and also helped to redefine the inspiration attributed to poets, since many poets of the period, including Coleridge himself, wished to emulate the prophetic voice of biblical tradition. Coleridge's mastery of this new study and his search for a new understanding of the Bible on which to ground his faith are the focus of this book. Beginning with an exposition of Coleridge's double role as theologian and poet, Anthony Harding analyses the development and transmission of Coleridge's views of inspiration - both biblical and poetic - and provides a history of his theological and poetic ideas in their second generation, in England especially in the work of F.D. Maurice and John Sterling, and in America in that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harding argues that Coleridge's emphasis on the human integrity of the |
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