Essayes in Divinity: Being Several Disquisitions Interwoven with Meditations and PrayersMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2001 - 209 pages In this new edition of Donne's Essayes in Divinity Anthony Raspa demonstrates how Donne reconciles the destiny of Christians, who arose out of divine creation, with the turbulent state of the Renaissance world. Raspa argues that the purpose of Donne's work is to explain how Genesis and Exodus capture the essence of existence for a person who must deal with life as both an individual and a member of a community. Completed late in 1614, Essayes, Donne's only theological and philosophical treatise, casts considerable light on his ideas about his own future. Donne entered the Anglican priesthood soon after completing it and Raspa reveals that, particularly because of its treatment of time and destiny, Essayes is crucial to our understanding of the development of Donne's ideas about the turbulent religio-political state of the Renaissance world and how he came to see his own life within it. Raspa contends that Essayes is a peculiarly modern work and that Donne, as a Renaissance humanist, was profoundly shaken by the development of empirical thinking and the seemingly endless political conflicts among Christian denominations. He shows that Donne drew on the entirety of Renaissance humanist learning in an attempt to reconcile the state of contemporary knowledge with the destiny of humanity prophesied in the bible. |
Table des matières
Preface | ix |
The Cultural Context | xvi |
The Argument of Essayes | xxxv |
Copies of 1651 1653 | lx |
Essayes in Divinity | lxxv |
| 200 | |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Acacius address to Vane appears Aquinas Arius Augustine Basel beginning biblical Book cabalism cabalistic century Chapter Christ Christian Cologne Commentary copies of Essayes Creation Deus Divell divine Donne's Donne's authority Donne's reference Donne's text doth Egypt Elohim Essayes eternity exegesis exegete Exod Exodus faith Genesis Geneva Bible God's Gods Greek hath Heaven Hebrew hence Donne's hexapla human Ignatius His Conclave Jessopp Jesuit Jews John John Donne Justice Keynes King King James Bible Latin letter Library London Lyra Margin 15 marginalia Mercy Miracles Moseley Moses nature note missing C-1 OC Margin Opera Omnia original Paris passage Patritius Pentateuch Pererius philosophical printed Pseudo-Martyr published quod Renaissance Reuchlin Roman Rome Saint sayes Scriptures Septuagint Sermons Simpson Summa Summa Theologica surviving copies Testament Tetragrammaton thee Theologica things thou Tostatus trans translation Trismegistus typology University verse Vulgate word writes Zoroaster