Philosophia Perennis: Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought

ISBN-13: 9781402030666 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 528 str.

Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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”.