Infinity on the Threshold of Christianity: The Emergence of a Positive Concept Out of Negativity.
As part of an expected further investigation into the role of infinity in stimulating contacts among religion, knowledge, and art in Western culture, the article focuses on the change in the attitude to infinity occurring in Neoplatonism and early Christianity. The overcoming of the so-called disgus...
| Publicado en: | TRAMES: A Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 307 - 341 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus
2009
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=510755057&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 510755057 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14060922 DT1 jtl: TRAMES: A Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences issn: 14060922 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2009 vid: 13 iid: 4 pid: 11112 pub: Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus artinfo: ui: 510755057 ppf: 307 ppct: 34 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 195KB tig: atl: Infinity on the Threshold of Christianity: The Emergence of a Positive Concept Out of Negativity. aug: au: Undusk, Rein su: Philosophy of Christianity Ancient philosophy Negative theology Infinite, The sug: subj: Philosophy of Christianity Ancient philosophy Negative theology Infinite, The ab: As part of an expected further investigation into the role of infinity in stimulating contacts among religion, knowledge, and art in Western culture, the article focuses on the change in the attitude to infinity occurring in Neoplatonism and early Christianity. The overcoming of the so-called disgust with infinity, characterizing the ancient thought, must be linked largely to two factors. First, Christian monotheism provided the means for channelling the monistic (and theological) undercurrent of ancient thought, which had secretly let it drift (in Platonism) towards the positive concept of ápeiron, while retaining simultaneously a wish to offer a rational and dialectically founded explication for the world. The fitting together of these divergent ends — theological and rational — was rendered possible by a second factor, by the specifically Christian, i.e. Trinitarian, concept of God. Assisted by the seminal studies of Pierre Hadot, the present article tries to elucidate the conceptual developments and mutations underlying the emergence of the new understanding of infinity in Christian culture. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|