Essayes in Divinity: Being Several Disquisitions Interwoven with Meditations and Prayers

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McGill-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
lxvi
16
200
Droits d'auteur

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À propos de l'auteur (2001)

Poet and churchman John Donne was born in London in 1572. He attended both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, but did not receive a degree from either university. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1592, and was appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1598. He became an Anglican priest in 1615 and was appointed royal chaplain later that year. In 1621 he was named dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. Donne prepared for his own death by leaving his sickbed to deliver his own funeral sermon, "Death's Duel", and then returned home to have a portrait of himself made in his funeral shroud. He died in London on March 31, 1631.

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TitreEssayes in Divinity: Being Several Disquisitions Interwoven with Meditations and Prayers
AuteurJohn Donne
RédacteurAnthony Raspa
CollaborateurAnthony Raspa
ÉditeurMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2001
ISBN0773523006, 9780773523005
Longueur209 pages
  
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