Literature, belief and knowledge in early modern England : knowing faith / Subha Mukherji, Tim Stuart-Buttle, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mukherji, Subha, editor.

Stuart-Buttle, Tim, 1983- editor.

Series:

Crossroads of knowledge in early modern literature

Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion).

Religion and literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 300 pages : illustrations, facsimilies ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

The primary aim of Knowing Faith is to uncover the intervention of literary texts and approaches in a wider conversation about religious knowledge: why we need it, how to get there, where to stop, and how to recognise it once it has been attained. Its relative freedom from specialised disciplinary investments allows a literary lens to bring into focus the relatively elusive strands of thinking about belief, knowledge and salvation, probing the particulars of affect implicit in the generalities of doctrine. The essays in this volume collectively probe the dynamic between literary form, religious faith and the process, psychology and ethics of knowing in early modern England. Addressing both the poetics of theological texts and literary treatments of theological matter, they stretch from the Reformation to the early Enlightenment, and cover a variety of themes ranging across religious hermeneutics, rhetoric and controversy, the role of the senses, and the entanglement of justice, ethics and practical theology.--Back cover.

Contents:

Part I. Crossroads of Knowledge: Literature and Theology / Subha Mukherji

Part 2. Literature, Theology and Hermeneutics. Erasmus on Literature and Knowledge / Brian Cummings

The Hermeneutics of Richard Hooker's Defence of the 'Sensible Excellencie' of Public Worship / Torrance Kirby

Seeing and Believing: Thomas Traherne's Poetic Language and the Reading Eye / Jane Partner

Part 3. Rhetorical Tropes, Literary Form and Theological Controversy. The Absence of Epistemology, or Drama and Divinity Before Descartes / Debora K. Shuger

'Qui enim securus est, minime securus est': The Paradox of Securitas in Luther and Beyond / Giles Waller

Allegories of Fanaticism / Ross Lerner

Part IV. Religious Knowledge and the Senses. What the Nose Knew: Renaissance Theologies of Smell / Sophie Read

Nosce Teipsum: The Senses of Self-Knowledge in Early Modern England / Elizabeth L. Swann

Part V. Justice, Ethics and Practical Theology. Knowing and Forgiving / Regina M. Schwartz

How to Do Things with Belief / Ethan H. Shagan

Locke's Cicero: Between Moral Knowledge and Faith / Tim Stuart-Buttle

Part VI. Afterword / Rowan Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319713582

9783319713588

OCLC:

1007067786