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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953834703321

Autore

Hedley Douglas

Titolo

Coleridge, philosophy, and religion : Aids to reflection and the mirror of the spirit / / Douglas Hedley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-107-11895-6

0-511-01148-2

1-280-42112-6

0-511-17351-2

0-511-15262-0

0-511-32760-9

0-511-48837-8

0-511-04929-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Philosophy, German - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-327) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue : explaining Coleridge's explanation -- ; 1. The true philosopher is the lover of God -- ; 2. Inner word : reflection as meditation -- ; 3. The image of God : reflection as imitating the divine spirit -- ; 4. God is truth : the faculty of reflection or human Understanding in relation to the divine Reason -- ; 5. The great instauration : reflection as the renewal of the soul -- ; 6. The vision of God : reflection culture, and the seed of a deiform nature -- Epilogue : the candle of the Lord and Coleridge's legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

Coleridge's relation to his German contemporaries constitutes the toughest problem in assessing his standing as a thinker. For the last half-century this relationship has been described, ultimately, as parasitic. As a result, Coleridge's contribution to religious thought has been seen primarily in terms of his poetic genius. This book revives and deepens the evaluation of Coleridge as a philosophical theologian in his own right. Coleridge had a critical and creative relation to, and kinship with, German Idealism. Moreover, the principal impulse behind his



engagement with that philosophy is traced to the more immediate context of English Unitarian-Trinitarian controversy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book re-establishes Coleridge as a philosopher of religion and as a vital source for contemporary theological reflection.