Philosophia perennis - Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought

The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

List of contents

Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination.- Outlines of Perennial Philosophy.- Glory.- Divine Names.- Kosmos Anthropos.- Archetypes.- Spiritual Spaces.- Theology of Time.- The Return of Time.- Epochs and Eras.- Translatio Sapientiae.- The Echo of Perennial Philosophy.- Schelling's "World-Ages".

Summary

The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

Product details

• Authors: Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2010
• EAN: 9789048167821
• ISBN: 978-90-481-6782-1
• No. of pages: 506
• Weight: 791 g
• Illustrations: XX, 506 p.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas; International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées; International Archives of the History of Ideas; International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées; International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Religion and Philosophy, Religion—Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Western philosophy