Coleridge's Progress to Christianity: Experience and Authority in Religious Faith

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Bucknell University Press, 1995 - 266 páginas
"Best known as a romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge also mounted a strong challenge to the skepticism and relativism we inherit from the Enlightenment. Ronald C. Wendling shows Coleridge, modern in his critical spirit and chronic anxiety, nevertheless progressing toward a total head-and-heart acceptance of Church of England orthodoxy. The tension between Coleridge's poetic feeling for the divinity of the sensible world and his reverential sense of God's personality and transcendence stimulated this development." "Adopting a personalist approach to the study of Coleridge's thought, Wendling explains how the circumstances contributing to his addictive personality helped shape his spiritual and intellectual life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
 

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The Resource of Metaphysics
34
The Disappearing Object
38
Christianity as an Empirical Center
45
An Excess of Inwardness
49
Coleridges Psychological Homelessness
51
The Struggle toward System
54
A Dynamic versus a Mechanical Nature
57
Dejection and the Effort of Reciprocity
60
COLERIDGEAN EMPIRICISM
126
The Influence of Descartes
129
The Approach to Trinitarianism 18061818
131
Building a Metaphysics
132
The Relation to Kant
134
COLERIDGEAN REALISM
139
Reason
141
The Sensual and the Symbolic
147

Poetry and Philosophy in Coleridges Religious Terms
64
Coleridges Indigence of Being
67
Contempt versus Enthusiasm
70
Revenge through Flight
73
A Column of Sand
76
Distortions of Sara and the Wordsworths
82
The Function of Philosophy for Coleridge
86
A Religion for Democrats 17921801
91
Coleridges Early Radicalism
95
Godwin Priestley and Hartley
96
The Bristol Lectures
100
Berkeley
105
Dents in the Radical Armor
107
Negative Unitarianism 18011806
111
Spinoza
114
Bruno and Philosophical Mysticism
118
Behmen and Visionary Enthusiasm
123
The Imagination
149
The Problem of Religious Authority
154
Coleridgean Orthodoxy 18091820
158
The Neoplatonic Context
160
The Essentials of Christian Doctrine
167
Inspiration Interpretation and the Church
175
Coleridges Christian Liberalism
183
The Logosophia 17991834
188
The Christianizing of the Magnum Opus
191
The Logosophia and the Later Works
194
The Direction of Coleridges Later Theology
199
From the Opus Maximum and Opus Magnum Manuscripts
202
Sara and STC
206
Notes
209
Works Cited
243
Index
251
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Página 39 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still & patient all I can; And haply by abstruse Research to steal From my own Nature all the Natural Man— This was my sole Resource, my wisest Plan! And that, which suits a part, infects the whole, And now is almost grown the temper of my Soul.
Página 43 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
Página 40 - That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure; No plot so narrow, be but Nature there, No waste so vacant, but may well employ Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart Awake to Love and Beauty!
Página 42 - O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware
Página 44 - For never guiltless may I speak of him, The Incomprehensible! save when with awe I praise him, and with Faith that inly feels; Who with his saving mercies healed me, A sinful and most miserable man, Wilder'd and dark

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